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From: | Daniel Colascione |
Subject: | Re: Emacs as word processor |
Date: | Sun, 17 Nov 2013 03:16:46 -0800 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 |
On 11/16/2013 11:28 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
25 years ago I hoped we would extend Emacs to do WYSIWG word processing. That is why we added text properties and variable width fonts. However, more features are still needed to achieve this.
Text properties are very useful on their own.
Could people please start working on the features that are needed?
I don't think that would be a productive use limited resources. Emacs' feature set is either already at a place suitable for "word processing" or astronomically distant depending on how you think about the problem: Emacs already works _very_ well for document preparation using auctex, nxml-mode, and so on. LibreOffice already covers the more conventional WYSIWYG space and is free software.
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