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
Thanks, Bean is pretty good, just tried it.
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