From: lam836@cs.cuhk.hk (Savio Lam) Subject: Re: A Better WordProcessor Idea Date: Sat, 22 May 1993 14:47:26 GMT
Joseph H Allen (jhallen@world.std.com) wrote:
> Yeah it would be way cool if an easy freeware wordprocessor existed for
> linux/unix. I've been thinking of doing that after my editor JOE is
> "finished". There's two ideas I have. Either: 1) something like the
> original wordstar- I.E., an editor which works nicely on normal text
> terminals and which doesn't really have 'preview' (I.E., it hides attribute
> change sequences, but shows the text with the current attributes on the
> screen. Plus it shows where the current page-breaks are). You'd want a
> 'printcap' database to give the printer's characteristics. I might just be
> able to make this as an extension to JOE. 2) An X-based wordprocessor (I
> don't know what vgalib is, but X is really the only portable graphics
> standard out there). You'd want the output to be postscript. My only
> question about this is about fonts. Do free, scallable, portable fonts
> exist for X? When I last did X programming it was my impression that the
> fonts were all bitmaps.
How about converting those fonts that comes with ghostscript into
something that is useable by X? If it can be done, we will have more
than enough nice scalable fonts for a WYSIWYG wordprocessor.
Regards,
Savio Lam.