From: warmerda@pci.on.ca (Frank Warmerdam) Subject: Re: A Word Processor for Linux Date: Fri, 6 Aug 1993 23:07:09 GMT
In article <1993Aug6.052152.25033@galileo.cc.rochester.edu> pn002b@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Peter C. Norton) writes:
>In <1993Aug5.234522.4237@medicus.com> billf@medicus.com (Bill Foote) writes:
>I like WordPerfect. I think that I could get all of the features of
>WP 5.1 (don't want to touch 6 until I *know* it's bug free) by running
>Emacs, and xdvi. "Wait," you say "there's something missing there!" Well,
>you're right. What would be needed would be for someone to write a slew
>of emacs macros that you be accessible either through Control and/or Meta
>key combinations to do all of the basic conversions of word processor-like
>commands into a TeX or LaTeX format, in another buffer. I am incapable of
>doing this, but is seems plausible. Spawn Emacs in X. Have Emacs spawn
>xdvi. Keep it suspended.As someone works, depending on the terminal,
>as they underline, bold, or italicize, have WP-like outlining and
>underlining appear. In an alternate buffer, all codes would be inserted
>and whenever you want to look at your document, a keystroke would
>bring the xdvi session into the foreground, and you could view your
>document. Anyone from MIT or CMU out there? :).
...
>Has anyone tried this? Or anything like this? It seems like an elementry
>process... Of course, I'm probably wrong :(
>
>Please, answer, as I'm (obviously) interested in this idea?
The IntuiTeX project is intended to do something similar to this. The key
compondent is rewriting a TeX engine that understands how to regenerate the
minimal parts of DVI output needed as small changes are made to the TeX
text source to provide WYSIWYG updating.
This is a GNU project, but is proceeding slowing so don't hold your breath.
ObThankYou: Linux Rules! Linus is wonderful!
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