How 'bout {t,n,g}roff? It's no harder than HTML and produces
pretty decent output to either screen or printer. Or, for
that matter, HTML isn't a bad choice, though it isn't very
paper-oriented.

You're used to control sequences to set bold, etc., right? The
only difference here is that you type a couple characters rather
than hold a couple keys while you type one character. There's
also no show/reveal codes, but I always had show codes turned
on--otherwise, I got all sorts of crap going on that I couldn't
see.

I wrote at least a few papers in college with troff. They looked
better than anything any of the word processors of the time turned
out, and--except for the first one--I spent a lot less time
screwing around with the word processor.

If you need a spellchecker, ispell and friends understand the
format.

Finally, don't be too scared by LaTeX. A bit of Googling for
``LaTeX tutorial'' will reveal all sorts of quick-and-dirty
instructions that should have you duplicating the capabilities of
WordPerfect in no time at all.

b&

On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 11:04:38AM -0500, Sam Stern wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I'm not certain if this is topical or not but here goes. I would
> like to locate a text mode word processor (layout much beyond a
> tab ordered list is unimportant) like the old WordPerfect Unix
> 5.x, Word Star 6 Unix, etc that I can run over ssh. Any hints on
> what to look for in the ports tree are welcome! Please note that
> the complexity of Latex is so vastly beyond what I need that
> it's a non-option.
>
> BTW, if anyone has managed to get WordPerfect or WordStar Unix
> working under OpenBSD i386 3.0 I would like to hear from
> you. Given that that these word processors are so cheap on eBay,
> if I can get one of them running reliably on OBSD I'd be one
> happy camper.
>
> TIA,
>
> Sam Stern
> Bethesda, MD, USA

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