Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 16:31:49 -0500 (CDT) From: "Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> To: chat@freebsd.org Subject: where is a lightweight, simple word processor? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.0805061611130.29978@tx.reedmedia.net>
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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?
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