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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:261562 Archived-At: > Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2020 at 9:51 AM > From: "Richard Stallman" > To: "Gregory Heytings" > Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, mardani29@yahoo.es > Subject: Re: Emacs as a word processor > > [[[ 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. ]]] > > > My impression (but I could very well be wrong) is that what RMS woul= d like > > to have is not a truly WYSIWYG word processor that would compete wit= h > > LibreOffice, but something simpler. > > Ideally it would compete with LibreOffice. > > However, if it can handle editing ODT files the same as LibreOffice, > but fails to display them as nicely, that would be a big step > along the way. > > I suspect that displaying ODT files properly requires figuring out exact= ly > how they should render in LibreOffice. Couldn't a major mode for that work. For Org-Mode I have seen that Protes= ilaos Stavrou has worked on Focused Editing and Proportionately Spaced Typeface. > -- > 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) > > > >