From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs as a word processor Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2020 00:49:13 -0500 Message-ID: References: <0E591E8B-FD55-4829-8421-6F2C02AFD20C@mit.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18301"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Gregory Heytings Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 24 06:49:58 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ksJVe-0004eP-4r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2020 06:49:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45462 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ksJVd-0003Xo-7K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2020 00:49:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36884) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ksJUw-000382-PA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 24 Dec 2020 00:49:14 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35874) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ksJUw-0003Wd-HA; Thu, 24 Dec 2020 00:49:14 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ksJUv-0003kM-IO; Thu, 24 Dec 2020 00:49:13 -0500 In-Reply-To: (emacs-devel@gnu.org) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:261656 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > [ ] import / export Microsoft Word files Not crucial in my opinion, since I say we should refuse to look at or create Word files. See https://gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html. But I think lots of users would want this feature. > [ ] import / export Open Document Format (.odt) files Very important. > [ ] import / export RTF files Nice but not crucial > [ ] export to a PDF file Very important. The rest are all formatting features. The program could start to be useful with only some of these, but all of them are important. > [ ] select a font and its size > [ ] apply a bold / italic / underline / strikethrough effect > [ ] use superscripts / subscripts > [ ] apply a left / center / right / justified effect > [ ] apply pixel-level fill / justification / indentation effects > [ ] change the font color and the background color > [ ] create / edit lists (with numbers / letters / bullets) > [ ] insert and change tables > [ ] insert pictures > [ ] define / use / modify styles > [ ] print preview / print > [ ] use footnotes > [ ] use multiple columns > [ ] change page headers and footers > [ ] operate on sections -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)