Re: Emacs as a word processor

[Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>]

* Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com> [2020-12-23 08:26]:
> 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.

I can understand it.

Back in time somewhere 1999-2000 several times I had to stop using
Emacs as it was crashing and there were several various versions and I
did not want risking losing my files. Maybe there were backups which I
did not know about it.

I have also used LyX extensively the Document Processor:
https://www.lyx.org/ and I would use it today if I wish to write
another book, it exports in various programs.

Org mode is very much degraded or basic set of formatting options that
are offered by LyX and TeXmacs as visual document processors.

Document processor is little different than a word processor.

Emacs is already a tool that does or integrates features that belong
to a document processor.

From:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_processor

Quote:

A document processor is a computer application that superficially
resembles a word processor—but emphasizes the visual layout of the
document's components,[1][2] above creation and formatting of
text. Document processor components are not just typical document
elements—paragraphs, lists, headers, etc. The primary attraction of a
document processor is the ability to program documents with strong
layout controls and powerful conditional automatic formatting rules
that creates structured documents. This facilitates creating large
numbers of similar elements generated and reformatted for different
media with little human effort.

Examples of document processors include programs and technologies such
as PTC Arbortext APP (formerly Advent 3B2,) Adobe FrameMaker, LyX,
BroadVision QuickSilver (formerly Interleaf TPS), Syntext Serna, and
the Wolfram notebook interface. Examples of markup languages used for
non-graphical document processing include SGML/XML, LaTeX, GNU TeXmacs
and troff.