Re: Looking for a text mode word processor

["Sam Stern" <samstern@samstern.net>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ports@openbsd.org 
> [mailto:owner-ports@openbsd.org] On Behalf Of Ben Goren
> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 02:56 PM
> To: ports@openbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Looking for a text mode word processor
> 
> 
> Gaah...sent to misc@ instead. Apologies; here it is to ports@.
> 
> b&
> 
> How  'bout  {t,n,g}roff? It's no  harder  than  HTML and  produces
> pretty  decent  output  to   either  screen  or  printer. Or,  for
> that  matter,  HTML isn't  a  bad  choice,  though it  isn't  very
> paper-oriented.
> 
> You're used  to control  sequences to  set bold,  etc., right? The
> only difference here  is that you type a  couple characters rather
> than  hold a  couple keys  while you  type one  character. There's
> also  no show/reveal  codes, but  I always  had show  codes turned
> on--otherwise, I  got all sorts of  crap going on that  I couldn't
> see.
> 
> I wrote at  least a few papers in college  with troff. They looked
> better than anything any of the word processors of the time turned
> out,  and--except for  the  first  one--I spent  a  lot less  time
> screwing around with the word processor.
> 
> If  you need  a spellchecker,  ispell and  friends understand  the
> format.
> 
> Finally,  don't be  too scared  by  LaTeX. A bit  of Googling  for
> ``LaTeX  tutorial''  will  reveal  all  sorts  of  quick-and-dirty
> instructions that should have  you duplicating the capabilities of
> WordPerfect in no time at all.
> 
> b&
> 


Hi Mr. Goren,

I'll look into the various TeX and roff types. If the learning curve is
not too steep with the TeX and Emacs TeX mode then that might just do
the trick. I was hoping to locate a nice WYSIWYG character mode word
processor but it looks as if this is not to be.

Thanks!

Sam S.