Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 16:42:38 -0700 From: Matt Olander <matt@ixsystems.com> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where is a lightweight, simple word processor? Message-ID: <200805061642.38163.matt@ixsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <2a7894eb0805061609r327a47a6p19d0797fc42dfcb0@mail.gmail.com> References: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0805061611130.29978@tx.reedmedia.net> <2a7894eb0805061609r327a47a6p19d0797fc42dfcb0@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tuesday 06 May 2008 4:09 pm, Murray Stokely wrote: > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net> 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
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