On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 23:46:55 -0700 (PDT) Satya satyap@satya.virtualave.net wrote:
b) Still looking for a non-GUI word processor which is simple to use, implements curses/ncurses efficiently for screen handling, uses simple fonts ( or no font at all !!) to give speedy outputs of big documents speedily on DMPs. We have not yet found anything remotely similar to the good old SCO Lyrix OR Uniplex wordprocessors. If someone has any suggestion on this it is welcome.
Try pico or nano (search google).
Text editors are not word processors. Also, it won't be a good idea to try and make a text-editor some kind of a de-facto standard (not to mean that Satya implied this :-)
c) Method of printing simple text under Star office OR Open Office. This is linked to previous section subject.
Try text2latex http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/TeX/support/text2latex/sample/
It seems to be a nice thing. What can actually be done is that plain text be made the vehicle of all communication and where a printed copy is required, text2latex can be used. I don't know how the filter works but we may alias lpr to something like "text2latex | lpr" so that the pretty printing is taken care of transparently.
I'll try to get more knowledge about this, if you give me time (and, of course, if you like the idea).