on Fri, Nov 23, 2001 at 10:11:42AM +0000, Glyn Millington (glyn@millingtons.org) wrote: > "Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes: > > >> I guess I was looking for something like that, because I cannot see > >> with emacs how you can make things bold, italic, or anything else. > > > Emacs is a text editor. It includes the ability to code up documents in > > various markup languages -- HTML, LaTeX, DocBook, groff -- but the > > actual formatting is a second, postprocessing step. Your best bet may > > be to use LaTeX, > > Latex is great for mathematics, prose, verse. Takes a while to learn > though - the curve isn't _very_ steep! The output is gorgeous. > > In the meanwhile Abiword is a neat little "word processor" which does > basic things well, if you don't to load up a monster like StarOffice. Ian doesn't have X. He's on some old, underpowered hardware, so it's console-only for the time being. Have to agree that Abiword's not bad for a GUI wordprocessor, though I prefer vim myself ;-) > >> and for receiving and processing email. > > > > fetchmail, exim, and mutt. Procmail if you want filtering > > capabilities, which is what it sounds like you're looking for from > > below. > > If you are into Emacs you might, later want to look at Gnus, a > newsreader which also handles mail really well - especially useful for > dealing with lots of mail from mailing lists etc. Heard that it's another good & powerful mail handler. > >> If I might ask, how do you handle the huge volume of traffic on > >> this list, there are hundreds of emails everytime that I connect. > > Gnus tells me what I like to read - there is a system for scoring up > subjects and authors(eg Karsten!) in which/whom I take an interest. > The rest are filtered down ot the bottom for a quick scan or can be > killed altogether - I need never see them. One keypress gets rid of > all the unopened post/news. ;-) -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html
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