> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-portsopenbsd.org
> [mailto:owner-portsopenbsd.org] On Behalf Of Ben Goren
> Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 02:56 PM
> To: portsopenbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Looking for a text mode word processor
>
>
> Gaah...sent to misc instead. Apologies; here it is to ports.
>
> b&
>
> 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&
>

Hi Mr. Goren,

I'll look into the various TeX and roff types. If the learning curve is
not too steep with the TeX and Emacs TeX mode then that might just do
the trick. I was hoping to locate a nice WYSIWYG character mode word
processor but it looks as if this is not to be.

Thanks!

Sam S.

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