Re: Emacs as word processor

[joakim@verona.se]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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>     Would it be okay, for instance, to edit with Emacs in one buffer and
>     have a separate libreoffice window update at the same time?
>
> Maybe it would be.  Is that feasible?

Yes it's feasible. I can have a look, because it could be an interesting
demonstration of the Emacs Xwidget branch as well.

Here is how the similar idea works in Inkmacs(Emacs + Inkskape):

- Write your text in an org-mode file
- Let Emacs start an Inkskape instance
- Emacs communicates with Inkskape using a DBus channel
- Emacs sends dbus commands to update text objects in Inkskape. Inkskape
immediately redraws its display when it receives the dbus commands

Optionally, with the Emacs Xwidget branch, you can also embed Inkskape
inside an Emacs buffer. This is convenient because you can use all the
Emacs buffer switching commands and so on.

also, you can of course try out the idea immediately with the various
Latex preview packages that already do all of this. I'm not all too
familiar with them though, since I normally either a) don't care at all
about layout and just let Latex do its thing or b) obsess about layout,
in which case I use Inkskape.


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Joakim Verona