From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 6 23:41:45 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C897106566C for ; Tue, 6 May 2008 23:41:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sequethin@gmail.com) Received: from hs-out-0708.google.com (hs-out-0708.google.com [64.233.178.244]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C54828FC0A for ; Tue, 6 May 2008 23:41:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sequethin@gmail.com) Received: by hs-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id m63so27752hsc.11 for ; Tue, 06 May 2008 16:41:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:cc:message-id:from:to:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:subject:date:references:x-mailer; bh=XpAKmE+ZeruVKPN6BJir5t/yXYOAVfHZGEQgey9q8XU=; b=rJFUhxke0cjNDeYr+lfe5zTVdmzC8jmnyn0Q1pKGpvL8wTPnp4vgIv0TxufPnvF/DmvZbcYuJF/X72E6UetuxavdhCXW95H82YtQQPYLgOInuwNigsTQYAE2d6+H2Xr7qVAsCRxTD4mnqJ4nWvJmhBQE8RCs6yXSQ/Zs07usuRE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=cc:message-id:from:to:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:subject:date:references:x-mailer; b=GpmFTXOY3Inaalk6nyMgY7YTXUiZz+JJSsaRAbV3vLBXwn+jvjGvKz4AIW/ZEMGgiD7WuyzsgcKaFuCGKi/6CZ63xrRyXXVVi3dpjRg2hXU82pcPeRcVbSIgzDVq5bK7RwIeZXUrV5C9jpEELk1Ltzhwnfb6Tg23D7AKjZVYjxI= Received: by 10.90.25.11 with SMTP id 11mr1884726agy.112.1210117303919; Tue, 06 May 2008 16:41:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.79? ( [70.107.189.251]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 27sm2489964wra.32.2008.05.06.16.41.41 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 06 May 2008 16:41:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: From: Michael Hernandez To: Jeremy C. Reed In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v919.2) Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 19:41:40 -0400 References: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.919.2) Cc: chat@freebsd.org 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: Tue, 06 May 2008 23:41:45 -0000 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