From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 8 05:39:35 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id FAA15872 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 8 May 1996 05:39:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from itsdsv1.enc.edu (itsdsv1.enc.edu [199.93.252.241]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA15858 for ; Wed, 8 May 1996 05:39:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dingo.enc.edu (dingo.enc.edu [199.93.252.229]) by itsdsv1.enc.edu (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id IAA27340; Wed, 8 May 1996 08:38:56 -0400 Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 08:39:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Charles Owens To: questions list FreeBSD cc: Richard Chang Subject: Re: word processor Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk From: Richard Chang Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 19:01:30 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: word processor On Tue, 7 May 1996, Chuck Robey wrote: > > On Tue, 7 May 1996, Richard Chang wrote: > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > > > Is there a word processor for FreeBSD under X that will be able > > > to write documents with different fonts or even print out to postscript? > > > Thanks! > > > > There's a couple. the 'doc' application from the 'iv' port does it, but > > I don't know that I'd recommend it, because iv is _huge_ (unless you need > > a neat C++ graphics/gui library) the size isn't justified. If you have > > tex installed (say from the ports teTeX distribution) then noname (yeah, > > it's called noname) does print postscript, and it's WYSIWYG. noname > > requires Motif, but there's a statically compiled version on > > wcarchive.cdrom.com, in pub/FreeBSD/incoming. > > Hmmm, is noname a Word Processor and is there anyway to do > calligraphy type fonts? I can't comment about 'noname' but I've been playing with 'lyx', and I'm quite impressed! It's a very usable almost-WYSIWYG front end to LaTeX, complete with support for previewing via xdvi and ghostview, spell-checking with ispell, multilingual support, and linuxdoc SGML generation. For info, see http://www.lehigh.edu/~dlj0/LyriX.html To get it going, I installed the latex package, a newer version of the Xforms library, and the 'babel' latex extension (ftp'd from CTAN). I also installed the linuxdoc distrib (http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/Linuxdoc-SGML.html), which compiled fine once I removed signal 9 from the trap commands in the included shell scripts, and installed the flex package. Anyhow, I now have a very nice word proc which does nice (latex quality) printing, and an easy route to generating HTML equivilants (via linuxdoc). --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu "I read somewhere to learn is to Information Technology Services remember... and I've learned that Eastern Nazarene College we've all forgot..." - King's X -------------------------------------------------------------------------