From: Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>
To: David Masterson <dsmasterson92630@outlook.com>
Cc: "Richard Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>, "Jean Louis" <bugs@gnu.support>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org, "Arthur Miller" <arthur.miller@live.com>,
"Gregory Heytings" <ghe@sdf.org>, "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>,
"Daniel Martín" <mardani29@yahoo.es>
Subject: Re: Emacs as a word processor
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 06:26:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <trinity-d28e604c-a22f-4994-99c8-acbade93b17e-1608701186731@3c-app-mailcom-bs10> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SJ0PR03MB54554DCA75673932C6ED09339BDE0@SJ0PR03MB5455.namprd03.prod.outlook.com>
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
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-23 5:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 96+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-22 18:22 Emacs as a word processor Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-12-22 18:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-22 19:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-22 19:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-22 19:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-22 20:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-22 19:32 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-22 19:41 ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-22 19:51 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-22 19:57 ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-22 20:07 ` Qiantan Hong
2020-12-22 20:43 ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-22 20:56 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-12-24 5:49 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-24 20:57 ` chad
2020-12-25 4:37 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-25 7:14 ` Emacs as a word processor (ways to convert Word/RTF proprietary files) Jean Louis
2020-12-25 8:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-25 9:58 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-25 12:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-25 13:11 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-25 13:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-27 21:28 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-12-28 7:26 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-28 17:11 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-28 22:19 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-12-29 8:31 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-29 13:27 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-12-28 13:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-28 19:12 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-12-25 13:23 ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-27 9:43 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-25 10:30 ` Yuri Khan
2020-12-26 10:23 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-26 10:32 ` Sv: " arthur miller
2020-12-26 11:03 ` Yuri Khan
2020-12-26 11:53 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-12-26 12:19 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-27 5:38 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-25 10:59 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-12-25 13:19 ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-25 14:44 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-12-25 19:41 ` Sv: " arthur miller
2020-12-25 21:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-26 10:13 ` Sv: " arthur miller
2020-12-27 21:08 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-12-25 13:49 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-25 15:02 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-12-26 6:34 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-28 11:44 ` Eric S Fraga
2020-12-28 12:22 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-12-28 12:37 ` Eric S Fraga
2020-12-28 16:25 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-12-29 10:10 ` Eric S Fraga
2020-12-28 13:37 ` [pandoc] (was: Emacs as a word processor (ways to convert Word/RTF proprietary files)) Uwe Brauer
2020-12-28 14:56 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-12-28 15:02 ` [pandoc] Uwe Brauer
2020-12-28 16:33 ` [pandoc] (was: Emacs as a word processor (ways to convert Word/RTF proprietary files)) Tomas Hlavaty
2020-12-28 17:07 ` [pandoc] Uwe Brauer
2020-12-28 18:11 ` [pandoc] Tomas Hlavaty
[not found] ` <X+Xv2f/sQzaWg/B0@protected.rcdrun.com>
2020-12-25 15:07 ` Emacs as a word processor (ways to convert Word/RTF proprietary files) Tomas Hlavaty
2020-12-26 6:35 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-27 21:14 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-12-28 1:39 ` Amin Bandali
2020-12-28 16:38 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2020-12-26 10:23 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-26 10:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-27 5:38 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-26 16:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-27 5:40 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-28 13:41 ` Uwe Brauer
2020-12-23 4:53 ` Emacs as a word processor David Masterson
2020-12-23 5:26 ` Christopher Dimech [this message]
2020-12-23 7:52 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-23 8:02 ` Jean Louis
2020-12-23 9:53 ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-23 1:48 ` yarnton--- via Emacs development discussions.
2020-12-23 2:29 ` Christopher Dimech
2020-12-23 2:53 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-12-23 7:25 ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-12-23 17:58 ` yarnton--- via Emacs development discussions.
2020-12-23 18:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-12-24 3:09 ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-12-25 4:31 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-25 5:17 ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-12-25 5:18 ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-12-26 10:28 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-26 11:30 ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-12-23 17:09 ` Kévin Le Gouguec
2020-12-24 5:47 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-23 10:18 ` Arthur Miller
2020-12-23 4:21 ` Richard Stallman
2020-12-23 4:38 ` Christopher Dimech
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-12-24 6:18 Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
2020-12-24 6:24 ` Christopher Dimech
2021-02-01 17:00 James Lu
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