Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 10:20:37 +0930 From: "Lei Chen" <leadamc1@gmail.com> To: "Michael Hernandez" <sequethin@gmail.com> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where is a lightweight, simple word processor? Message-ID: <2E1DF18942294996AD68EBCD8EDD8D48@PowerWS> In-Reply-To: <DFBEB945-4F52-4436-B541-A1F23A823C24@gmail.com> References: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0805061611130.29978@tx.reedmedia.net> <DFBEB945-4F52-4436-B541-A1F23A823C24@gmail.com>
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> 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.
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