RE: Text processor

[jason whizzird net]

this is blashphemy to mention on this list but i hear good things about
K-office. it requires kde, which requires qt, which is not gpl, so most of us
will avoid it, but if you want wysiwyg try it.

also check out www.linuxberg.com and the x11 software/office apps section.
they've got several there. 
but to be really cool, you should do all such editing with vi (or emacs
depending on your religious beliefs) in TeX format.
point and click editors like wordpad are easy to learn, and have some useful
tools, but level out quickly, while a good editor like emacs or vi (swiched
order to please the emacs lovers) will be harder to learn but give you more
power down the road.
and with both you can write macros to do _anything_ word count, tag stripping,
case conversion.
also you are dead wrong about vi (can't speak for pico, never used it) compared
to dos edit (expect many heated replies). vi is hard to learn but it can do a
_hell_ of a lot more than any dos editor. (except maybe the dos vi port :>
). and there's always gui-vim, all the functionality (i think) plus some
very customizable point & click functionality.

On 19-Jun-99 Robin Miller scribbled:
> Okay, I got Gnome running. Now I need to be able to *work*
> with it. I write, like words, for a living, mostly online,
> and so far I haven't found a single Linux text processor
> that has the features I need, which are:
> 
> 1) Mousable Win/Mac-type interface
> 
> 2) Ability to strip SGML and HTML tags from imported text (a
> la quotes from e-mail and Web sites)
> 
> 3) Ability to strip in basic HTML tags; links, <P>, <I>,
> etc.
> 
> 4) Character Conversion; UC to lc, lc or UC to Capitalized,
> etc.
> 
> 5) Able to write and save in ASCII, Word, and RTF.
> 
> 6) A WORD COUNT FEATURE! NO PROFESSIONAL WRITER CAN LIVE
> WITHOUT ONE!!!
> 
> GXedit comes fairly close, but it crashes more than Win98
> running three copies of Netscape on a 486, and the word
> count feature doesn't count words accurately. It is a toy,
> not a professional tool.
> 
> Pico and Vi are no better than DOSEDIT -- and harder to use.
> If I wanted to use DOSEDIT I could have stuck with an 8086
> that took about 0.5 seconds to boot. :)  
> 
> I haven't tried TED yet, but plan to shortly. WordPerfect
> and StarOffice are too locked-in on paper-oriented formats
> and eat a whole screen. Reporters and others who do online
> research need to work around open browser windows. We're not
> secretaries or novelists. We research and write at the same
> time, usually at high speed, because we have DEADLINES!!!
> 
> The world's best text editor for modern writers whose work
> either appears online or is submitted to dead-tree
> publications by modem is NoteTab. Its home page is
> http://www.notetab.com.
> 
> I think one reason so many reporters write negative articles
> about Linux is that there is no way they can actually use
> Linux in their work. I'm sitting here running Linux,
> downloading information about Linux, and writing about Linux
> -- mostly in Windows, using NoteTab. (Through VMware)
> 
> There are dozens of usable Windows text editors for writers.
> It would be nice to have one for Linux. (Nedit is the
> closest I've found so far...)
> 
> I can promise any developer who comes up with a usable,
> non-crashing text/HTML editor for Linux at least a little
> bit of fame and fortune. My sites aren't as popular as
> slasdot, but a good word from me can overload most ftp
> servers. :)
> 
> -- Robin Miller
> Editor and Columnist
> Andover News Network
> http://www.andovernews.com
> http://www.techsightings.com
> http://www.davecentral.com
> 
> -- plus freelancing for all kinds of magazines and
> newspapers.
> (You have probably read things I wrote and didn't know it.)
> 
> 
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Date: 18-Jun-99
Time: 22:27:09
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