Grateful for your prompt reply. No, I'm actually looking for a word processor for small time jobs like letters and other odd things that I push out on my DMP. This type of odd jobs actually occupies 60% of my time. I am getting tired of switching to "X" for such small stuff.
The ASCII requirement is a personal fancy for portability to other applications. Perhaps asking for the moon ! I know of quite a few DOS editors capable of that inclusive of WS in non-document mode. Acorn "view" for the BBC used to do just that. vi editor is the thing that I am using at the moment for the small time jobs, only that the finesse of proper page breaks and justification are missing. Surely, LaTeX (and LyX) is definitely a class apart for do- ing real fancy documents, but that's not the use that I am envisaging. I used LyX in the past as well (a good frontend for LaTex for lazy bones)! Of late I have switched to a new wp called abiword ... does HTML, doc and RTF as well .. and prints fine without any further processing. All these still mean switching to "X"! USM Bish On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 09:09:53AM -0600, s. keeling wrote: > On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 07:10:57PM +0518, USM Bish wrote: > > A difficult thing to ask for in today's GUI world. > > I am looking for a simple light weight console app > > (non GUI) word processor, something like the good > > old WordStar (and such relics of yesteryears). > > > > Should be able to do formatting of text with left > > and right justification, setting of left and right > > margins, text alignment (left, right and centre). > > > > Preferentially should be able to save text in pure > > ASCII. > > Would that be "word processor" as in not "text editor"? Do you know > about LaTeX? Input files are created in a text editor (vi, jed, ...), > passed to LaTeX which produces a .dvi file, and dvips produces a > postscript file for ghostscript to send to the printer. In X, you can > view it before printing it with xdvi. > > This is what I use for prettified documents. If you know programming, > think of it as a programming language for documents. It's very > powerful, there's many good books describing how to use it, and it's > well supported in the free software community. > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen) TopQuark Software & Serv. Enquire within. > [sed 's/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/@/g'] Contract programmer, server > bum. > Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
