From: brendan@news.otago.ac.nz (Brendan Murray) Subject: Re: A Word Processor for Linux Date: Wed, 4 Aug 1993 01:05:54 GMT
Jonathan H. Barlow (jhb1@Ra.MsState.Edu) wrote:
> I've decided to attempt to write a word processor for Linux. I'm thinking
> of making it similar to Interleaf. I would appreciate any suggestions.
> If there already exists a word processor for Linux, I would also appreciate
> a letter telling me that a new one would be futile.
> -Jonathan Barlow
> barlow@erc.msstate.edu
'doc' as provided in the SLS X distribution is not TOO bad as a word
processor. WYSIWYG, TeX output, reasonable number of features.
Of course a 50 page document that 'latex' processes in 30s on a 486/50
takes 1m34s using doc, but at least with doc I can look at what I got.
Screen updates seem to take forever wit large docs as well. As a
painless intro to creating TeX/LaTeX docs though its worth the trouble.