From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 7 00:15:22 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2956C1065677 for ; Wed, 7 May 2008 00:15:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matt@ixsystems.com) Received: from mail.iXsystems.com (newknight.ixsystems.net [206.40.55.70]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 093F68FC17 for ; Wed, 7 May 2008 00:15:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matt@ixsystems.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.iXsystems.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5CE9BE87 for ; Tue, 6 May 2008 16:42:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.iXsystems.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.ixsystems.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 43431-10 for ; Tue, 6 May 2008 16:42:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from client-110.nat.ixsystems.net (unknown [192.168.1.110]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.iXsystems.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BADCBE83 for ; Tue, 6 May 2008 16:42:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Olander Organization: iXsystems To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 16:42:38 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <2a7894eb0805061609r327a47a6p19d0797fc42dfcb0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2a7894eb0805061609r327a47a6p19d0797fc42dfcb0@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200805061642.38163.matt@ixsystems.com> X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 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: Wed, 07 May 2008 00:15:22 -0000 On Tuesday 06 May 2008 4:09 pm, Murray Stokely wrote: > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:31 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. > > ... > > > Maybe some rich format editor can be stripped out of some email client > > or HTML editor to be a standalone simple light word processor? > > Google Docs meets the basic requirements you listed here, but I'm > guessing you intentionally excluded it for other reasons? You can > import HTML files and plain text, Microsoft Word (.doc), Rich Text > (.rtf), OpenDocument Text (.odt), StarOffice (.sxw), Microsoft > PowerPoint (.ppt, .pps), Comma Separated Value (.csv), Microsoft Excel > (.xls) files, and OpenDocument Spreadsheet (.ods). Export to the > above formats or PDF. Multiple people can edit the documents > simultaneously and chat about the changes in built in discussion pane, > etc. Include dynamic variables from the web in your documents such as > stock prices and such, etc, etc.. We just did a collaborative project using Google Docs while I was in Europe. It worked great for our purposes. I, for one, welcome our Google overlords! :-P -matt