Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 19:41:40 -0400 From: Michael Hernandez <sequethin@gmail.com> To: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net> Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: where is a lightweight, simple word processor? Message-ID: <DFBEB945-4F52-4436-B541-A1F23A823C24@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0805061611130.29978@tx.reedmedia.net> References: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0805061611130.29978@tx.reedmedia.net>
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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
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