From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs as a word processor Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 11:02:58 +0300 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17849"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0 (3d08634) (2020-11-07) Cc: Gregory Heytings , Eli Zaretskii , Daniel =?utf-8?Q?Mart=C3=ADn?= , Richard Stallman , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Arthur Miller Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 23 09:06:12 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 1krz9w-0004UL-Ee for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 09:06:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36774 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1krz9v-00048S-Gu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 03:06:11 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:60544) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1krz8b-0003Zb-Aw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 03:04:49 -0500 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:55867) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1krz8V-0004th-Rg; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 03:04:47 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:41.202.241.37]) (AUTH: PLAIN securesender, TLS: TLS1.2,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000000181C3.000000005FE2FA18.0000478F; Wed, 23 Dec 2020 01:04:40 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Jean Louis , Arthur Miller , Gregory Heytings , Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Richard Stallman , Daniel =?utf-8?Q?Mart=C3=ADn?= Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:261575 Archived-At: * Arthur Miller [2020-12-22 22:58]: > >> > 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? :-) I know is fun but let us think about it. Probably it does not offer syntax highlight, but it is not impossible as it can use scheme as extension language. >From there I can just think that scheme could provide communication with Emacs. My personal way of writing a book would be to rather write it as text and THEN to format the chapters, text, justifications, etc. In general I would let TeX and LaTeX decide about those issues. Jean