What is the problem with running Android here?

Google controlling your phone. Google owning your private data.

I don't think I'd call Rust user friendly.

If the problem is the type system/borrow checker, it's simply a question of experience.

Not when writing GUI like code, to the point that the Rust team acknowledges that additional work needs to be done after NLL lands on stable.

http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2018/11/01/afte...

http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2018/11/10/afte...

So while Rust is much more productive than ATS or Cyclone, there is still room of improvement for that experience.

It is, if you don't mind sprinkling your code with Rc<RefCell<item>> everywhere, as means to access widget struct members in callbacks.

"Terrible and unoriginal name choice" is probably a little dramatic:

https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=gutenberg+static+...

No customization presents a simple tool that, hopefully, just works and can be accepted with its flaws and limitations. Once customization starts being added in, it's easier to see annoyances and "why isn't this feature present".

Not sure why this got down voted -- no expectation of customization does seem to lower the threshold of satisfaction. Yours seems a solid explanation.

It's significantly easier to be "bad" with C++ than it is to be "bad" with Java.

The Sile PDF says

> There is no shortcut for boldface, because boldface isn’t good typographic practice and so we don’t want to make it easy for you to make bad books.

Where/what is that from? Like is that common "knowledge"?

Not really. Generally, ALL CAPS and italic are preferred over bold (as both are specially cut for that, and keep the contrast roughly the same), but bold is not bad either (and for sans serif, always choose bold over italic). Compare with: http://practicaltypography.com/bold-or-italic.html

What you definitely shouldn’t do is underlining, though: http://practicaltypography.com/underlining.html

Both of your links redirect to: http://practicaltypography.com/graylist.html, which lacks useful content

Maybe that's a random redirect? Both of the original links work just fine for me.

You need to copy/paste the links to avoid to send a Referrer header.

I am not quite sure about it not being good typographic practice, but it's sure weird historically to mix faces of different weights. Furthermore there is already emphasized (italic) text; it's not strictly necessary for prose.

I've read a handful of books where there is some type of bold formatting used, and in each case it was electronic rich text (e.g an email or word document).

Has anyone used (Quoll Writer)[0]?

[0]: https://quollwriter.com/

I've just imported a story I'm editing into Quoll. It seems quite nice. Little visual clutter, a decent feature set that helps with keeping track of characters, scenes etc, organize ideas, keep track of word count targets, keep you motivated etc. The achievements are a nice touch, and the ability to invite editors looks helpful (though I haven't tried that)

There are a few bugs (it reordered my chapters when I marked a chapter as edit-complete the first time. That obviously shouldn't happen).

Overall it seems like a big step up compared to Word. It can't quite keep up with the feature set of scrivener, but in exchange it has a much more approachable and clutter-free interface, much closer to the idea of distraction-free writing.

What is the process for converting what is written in Quoll into something printable, like a PDF?

I would say the export functions are among the weaknesses of Quoll. You can export to HTML, docx and epub, with the only notable configurable option the selection of the chapters (and character notes etc) that should be included in the export. For epubs you can also configure author name and ISBN.

The quality of the exports is not that great. The HTML looks good for printing, but is a pain to read on screen. The epub looks good, except that it doesn't display chapter headings. The docx has 8 newlines between paragraphs when I open it in OpenOffice. I don't have a MS Word on hand right now to check whose fault that is, but it's unfortunate since I would probably go via docx to pdf.

"provides a read-only mirror" sounds like "developed behind closed doors" to me.

Oh, bummer, I was really hoping it would support Windows.

You need xonsh - http://xon.sh/ :)

Or a phone book.