From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Andreas_R=F6hler?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs as word processor Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 16:27:53 +0100 Message-ID: <5288E079.2080301@online.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1384701914 12648 80.91.229.3 (17 Nov 2013 15:25:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2013 15:25:14 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 17 16:25:18 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vi4Du-000446-Hk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Nov 2013 16:25:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39420 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vi4Du-0008RE-0p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Nov 2013 10:25:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59769) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vi4Dk-0008Nr-Gw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Nov 2013 10:25:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vi4Dd-0008U9-8P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Nov 2013 10:25:08 -0500 Original-Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:65385) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vi4Dc-0008SY-VB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Nov 2013 10:25:01 -0500 Original-Received: from purzel.sitgens (brln-4dba786b.pool.mediaWays.net [77.186.120.107]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mrbap4) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MIw2b-1Vg8H51hUX-002Usq; Sun, 17 Nov 2013 16:24:58 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 In-Reply-To: X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:ckq1Cecdi4C1JAqP2+gDsxEfjUFIHM7PsYvrIn4H1jE F2Fl3UiqhEKRfE9qNLe/z9ataLUCxDKIQR5yRjY1FM9pocfNw8 EAC25gRAiD4MoVzN14lZk3FIUh4qywqx0FZkj9ZeypJ/EQMdBx FbpxdN4L/pP+bLjO/AeAkxdrEmZBIh3FpJqs+mb8c1hS5ZQ7ma 0fpxjHW64IqL0ItuqsC6McLliNDGxL/BLbnAWweHNqaEnXiHsO GuuQXKIfnxXLe0sdJA/t7Jq22MSvcBz+doM4e4FwQVV05KEJlm QYP+pYP11OQcuED1EPAGQlpHxee26Wy8TZ//I5buohIYPt2FFx caQGDtVE8sb6NGAj5gus= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 212.227.126.187 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:165298 Archived-At: Am 17.11.2013 08:28, schrieb Richard Stallman: > 25 years ago I hoped we would extend Emacs to do WYSIWG word > processing. That is why we added text properties and variable width > fonts. However, more features are still needed to achieve this. > > Could people please start working on the features that are needed? > Welcome any further enhancement of Emacs as an editor. However don't think WYSIWG is the right way. The focus at edit times IMO is quite different from that of final readers. For example I'd like to see footnotes-anchors better than in document than. But why not have an ODF-backend for text-modes, so formats might be stored across sessions? Best regards, Andreas