Re: Emacs as word processor

[Richard Stallman]

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    The issue is that most people want something like LibreOffice so that
    they can do what other people do with Microsoft Word, including exchange
    files.  That level of compatibility is a boatload of work.

Yup.  But that is what is needed.

    So I suspect that (a) the number of people who want this and (b) the
    number of actual use-cases are quite small.

Perhaps most current Emacs users use TeX when they want to format something.
I use TeX to write a manual, and also when I want to send a nicely formatted
letter; but I wish I could do the latter WYSIWYG in Emacs.

But there are so many people who don't use Emacs or TeX.  They use
WYSIWYG word processors only.  I wish we could make Emacs easy for
them to use, so they could get the benefit of Emacs's other advantages
while doing their word processing.

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