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Re: Emacs as a word processor
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Christopher Dimech |
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Re: Emacs as a word processor |
Date: |
Wed, 23 Dec 2020 05:38:02 +0100 |
> Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2020 at 9:51 AM
> From: "Richard Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
> To: "Gregory Heytings" <ghe@sdf.org>
> Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, mardani29@yahoo.es
> Subject: Re: Emacs as a word processor
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> > My impression (but I could very well be wrong) is that what RMS would like
> > to have is not a truly WYSIWYG word processor that would compete with
> > LibreOffice, but something simpler.
>
> Ideally it would compete with LibreOffice.
>
> However, if it can handle editing ODT files the same as LibreOffice,
> but fails to display them as nicely, that would be a big step
> along the way.
>
> I suspect that displaying ODT files properly requires figuring out exactly
> how they should render in LibreOffice.
Couldn't a major mode for that work. For Org-Mode I have seen that Protesilaos
Stavrou has worked on Focused Editing and Proportionately Spaced Typeface.
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Re: Emacs as a word processor, Arthur Miller, 2020/12/23
Re: Emacs as a word processor, Richard Stallman, 2020/12/22
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Re: Emacs as a word processor, Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez, 2020/12/24