Re: OT wordprocessing anyone?

[richard lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Saturday 12 June 2004 12:25, Brad Sims wrote:
[...]
> Hrm, I played yesterday with texmacs and while the keybindings are
> those of EMACS (Esc Meta Alt Ctrl Shift) it /is/ usable with a
> mouse and I liked it better than kile for some reason.

Well... I have just had a quick look too.  Texmacs does look quite 
usable, with a few reservations.  As installed (without creating new 
styles), it is really like using msword the way the average joe or 
jill does -- adjust each paragraph by eye, rather than using a proper 
structure.  No title style, etc.  As Raju warned, it is not writing 
tex, and in fact you cannot see what it _is_ writing at all.  But it 
is true wysiwig and would be quick to work in. It did crash once 
while I was playing -- but that was my fault for choosing something 
inappropriate from a menu. And it could not stomach importing my work 
in progress latex file - just gave a couple of pages of red error 
messages.  Working on a fresh file was sweet enough though. So, 
probably a really easy way to go.  Why do I always prefer the 
difficult way?  

I must go and look at groff now, before deciding to stay with kile and 
learn latex.

-- 
richard