From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 29 01:16:09 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D65031065670 for ; Thu, 29 May 2008 01:16:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leadamc1@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.180]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF7D48FC13 for ; Thu, 29 May 2008 01:16:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from leadamc1@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id j4so3150728wah.3 for ; Wed, 28 May 2008 18:16:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:from:to:cc:references:in-reply-to:subject:date:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-priority:x-msmail-priority:x-mailer:x-mimeole; bh=ne2tIwmQyKg7SRslGHG2CO6gnmAiND0F81p9WOycHIQ=; b=cCGLDJaMWzecKjmGgPBEGH0jIzE91HCREMZ52oXcM6YVIKyRCDJnh1CN2YZexZ8hRMwyw9crSbv0+RHUPhCGaugxF5FB/UzhYgHmL1ktccZGHpISLqpwTqY7zW5JEw6yKPCzxrYqIy7kWb39PZm61Dkdw4i6wZ7PHAQNmj7mMx4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:from:to:cc:references:in-reply-to:subject:date:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-priority:x-msmail-priority:x-mailer:x-mimeole; b=r89jnDhF41XeEnQuvMwyzND76cB6JU1TnGZyd3wQ2APWhcMifDiaPpnd4kxeaJdZj1QLUeT9j2UzD1sqt/T0pHEDW2+WJBSYaKvHsTOFMm/PFrfeTLo08xs7K09cF4SpG2JrjrvZ4qgdEj+tRziRmYtPqMmvoyck33K0q67uSPY= Received: by 10.114.183.1 with SMTP id g1mr3578193waf.3.1212022255041; Wed, 28 May 2008 17:50:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from PowerWS ( [124.243.156.192]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id k39sm118861wah.3.2008.05.28.17.50.52 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 28 May 2008 17:50:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2E1DF18942294996AD68EBCD8EDD8D48@PowerWS> From: "Lei Chen" To: "Michael Hernandez" References: In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 10:20:37 +0930 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Windows Mail 6.0.6000.16480 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.0.6000.16545 Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where is a lightweight, simple word processor? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 01:16:09 -0000 > On May 6, 2008, at 5:31 PM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote: > >> I have been looking for a simple word processor that supports >> formatted >> text, different fonts and maybe bullet lists. And is close to >> WYSIWYG. I >> don't care about format it can save or import as long as I can find an >> intermediate tool to do my conversions. I don't need tables. But if >> it can >> plug into another speller that would be nice but not required. Also >> images >> not required, but okay. Support for multiple languages would be nice >> but >> required right now. I will accept losing formatting attributes when >> importing. Page breaks would be nice but not required. >> >> (I often receive and send press releases and other documents that >> are in >> different formats. I don't like losing all the formatting when I >> send back >> an edited document. I don't mind losing hidden metadata.) >> >> I found gwp but old 1999 code uses old gnome-libs. >> >> I found 1998 maxwell, but haven't figured out build yet on modern >> system. >> >> siag's pw has crashed a few times on me. And I don't know if >> maintained. >> >> Ted has worked for me sometimes and failed for me sometimes. I don't >> know >> if still maintained. >> >> abiword is too big. kword is too big. oowriter is too big. LyX is >> too big. >> I don't want to require KDE libraries, libgnome, teTeX, or other big >> dependencies. I don't need hundreds of features just to be able to >> edit >> and provide simple document that has some formatted text. I don't >> want to >> manually type in RTF, XML, or OpenDocument formats. >> >> Maybe there is some GTK widget that provides a rich formatting editor? >> >> Maybe some rich format editor can be stripped out of some email >> client or >> HTML editor to be a standalone simple light word processor? >> > > If you were using OS X I'd suggest Bean... Not sure what to tell you! > > --Mike H Thanks, Bean is pretty good, just tried it.