[Novalug] Replacement for abiword??

Beartooth karhunhammas at Lserv.com
Sun Jan 21 13:22:46 EST 2007


On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, jlg wrote:

> Not to put too fine a point on it: TeX for a non technical 
> user?!  Sheesh, Emacs would be easier.  Maybe she'd like 
> something easy and intuitive such as vi (which I use) (Sarcasm 
> implied).  My read of her reqs was that formatting was 
> secondary to easy editing ("but only for plain text; ").

 	I.e., the text of a novel. Yes, the perennial hazard of 
putting such a question to any hotshot(s) is that you'll get 
something miles above your head.

> There are a billion text editors out there - pull a couple down 
> and try em out.

 	That's precisely why I'm asking where to start.

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