Re: Emacs as a word processor

[Christopher Dimech]

A few years ago I used Texmacs but found in it some serious problems that
could potentially get you to loose your work, ending up with an empty file.

I stopped using it.


> Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2020 at 10:23 AM
> From: "David Masterson" <dsmasterson92630@outlook.com>
> To: "Arthur Miller" <arthur.miller@live.com>
> Cc: "Richard Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>, "Jean Louis" <bugs@gnu.support>, 
> emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Gregory Heytings" <ghe@sdf.org>, "Eli Zaretskii" 
> <eliz@gnu.org>, "Daniel Martín" <mardani29@yahoo.es>
> Subject: Re: Emacs as a word processor
>
> 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
> 
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