Re: Boldface typing

[Rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday, December 31, 2014 9:59:31 AM UTC+5:30, Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> twlllmxxx  writes:
> 
> > Just learning emacs. Editing text,
> 
> Ok.  So what is a text file?
> 
> 
> > I want to type a word in boldface
> > and then go back to default. So I use M-o b and type in boldface, then
> > M-o d and continue typing. It looks right: one word in boldface and
> > the rest in default. Then I save the file. Then I re-open it, and the
> > boldface is gone. Maybe I made a mistake. I repeat the editing, save
> > the file, and then re-open it. Again the boldface is gone. Any ideas?
> >
> > I'm working from Learning GNU Emacs by Cameron et al., O'Reilly.
> >
> > This is GNU Emacs 24.2.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600).
> 
> 
> Use M-x enriched-mode RET first.  Then you will save not a text file,
> but an enriched-text file.

If what you need is a word processor you should use that -- eg libreoffice, MSWord etc

emacs does a rather poor job of word processing

The solution in the emacs/unix world 20 years ago was latex/groff etc -- ie
document processors

Today the goto-solution for this (and 1000 other things) in emacs-land is org mode.
It does have a long learning curve though...