From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tomas Hlavaty Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs as a word processor (ways to convert Word/RTF proprietary files) Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2020 22:28:03 +0100 Message-ID: <87k0t3q6qk.fsf@logand.com> References: <0E591E8B-FD55-4829-8421-6F2C02AFD20C@mit.edu> <83eejenvy2.fsf@gnu.org> <837dp6nl5e.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="6886"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jean Louis , Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 27 22:28:56 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 1ktdax-0001gc-UB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 22:28:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46308 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktdaw-00025Y-SN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 16:28:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54204) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktdaF-0001fN-8B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 16:28:11 -0500 Original-Received: from logand.com ([37.48.87.44]:39334) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ktdaB-0005pl-RU; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 16:28:10 -0500 Original-Received: by logand.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 47F9719F668; Sun, 27 Dec 2020 22:28:05 +0100 (CET) X-Mailer: emacs 26.3 (via feedmail 11-beta-1 I) In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=37.48.87.44; envelope-from=tom@logand.com; helo=logand.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:261919 Archived-At: On Fri 25 Dec 2020 at 16:11, Jean Louis wrote: > * Eli Zaretskii [2020-12-25 15:09]: >> And your solutions are lacking, even by your own account. You have >> just complained elsewhere that using ps-print (which you say is the >> solution for the "printing" part of WP) doesn't allow you to control >> the place where each line is wrapped. In addition, ps-print's >> support for non-Latin-1 scripts is extremely poor (needs a lot of >> configuring and looks ugly on paper). And I don't even want to start >> talking about R2L scripts. So far I have similar limitations in emacs-pdf but I would like to improve that. > Yes, I said that it would be good to have the formula that makes > it. The only reason to use Emacs ps-print-buffer-with-faces would be > to print those enriched-mode notes that I have. When I tried enriched-mode I did not figure out how to use it. If I implemented pdf-buffer-with-faces what kind of formatting stuff would you find important? > Libreoffice I open from time to time when I need to see somebody's > presentation You can do that in Emacs already. Using emacs-framebuffer should work automatically out of the box. Using doc-view or pdf-tools might need extra conversion to pdf.