Re: Emacs as a word processor

[David Masterson]

Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> writes:

> Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:
>
>> * Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> [2020-12-22 22:41]:
>>> Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:
>>> 
>>> >> [ ] apply a bold / italic / underline / strikethrough effect
>>> >> [ ] superscripts / subscripts
>>> >> [ ] apply a left / center / right / justified effect
>>> >> [ ] change the font color and the background color
>>> >> [ ] create a list
>>> >> [ ] insert and change a table
>>> >> [ ] insert a picture
>>> >> [ ] define / use / modify styles
>>> >> [ ] print preview / print
>>> >> [ ] use footnotes
>>> >> [ ] multiple columns
>>> >> [ ] change page headers and footers
>>> >
>>> > Yes, yes and yes. And all that is already supported and provided in
>>> > the beautiful GNU project named TeXmacs:
>>> > https://www.texmacs.org/tmweb/home/welcome.en.html
>>> >
>>> Isn't it also all provided in LibreOffice, KOffice, Abi Word and
>>> probably 1000 other applications? :-)
>>> 
>>> What is the point of saying it is provided in application X?
>>
>> Because it is GNU project.
>
> Ok :-).
>
> So we can switch all to texmacs? Does it syntax highlight C/C++ and run
> Helm? :-)

Perhaps the two can be integrated?  That is a menu entry in Emacs that
would spawn TeXmacs in such a way that TeXmacs would save it's file in
Latex form which could then be imported into Auctex/Emacs?  In other
words, let Emacs do Emacs and TeXmacs do TeXmacs in a way that
communicates well.

-- 
David Masterson