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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!comp.vuw.ac.nz!waikato!auckland.ac.nz!jupiter!peter From: peter@scitec.auckland.ac.nz (Peter Dobcsanyi) Newsgroups: comp.editors,comp.text,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: WYSIWYG word processor for Unix Followup-To: comp.editors,comp.text Date: 21 Mar 1996 00:24:20 GMT Organization: University of Auckland Lines: 38 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4iq7jk$3dv@net.auckland.ac.nz> References: <4i0k64$eme@net.auckland.ac.nz> Reply-To: P.Dobcsanyi@auckland.ac.nz NNTP-Posting-Host: jupiter.scitec.auckland.ac.nz X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.editors:16810 comp.text:13012 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:16352 Peter Dobcsanyi (peter@scitec.auckland.ac.nz) wrote: : I am looking for _free_ WYSIWIG _word processors_ which can run under : Unix in an X-window environment. I should have also said _simple_. Anyway the only thing I have found so far is the 'Andrew User Interface System', in particular its 'ez' editor. The system includes a: word processor program editor mail/netnews reader/writer/manager drawing and image viewers/editors spreadsheet HTML editor application development tools At first look it seems to be a _huge_, impressive and complicated system. I cannot make any comment on it yet but I going to try it. (look at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/Web/People/AUIS/ ) Somebody suggested (La)TeX. Actually we have (and use) an extensive (La)TeX environment. But we also would like to have a simple WYSIWIG word processor, because for some small jobs (like printing a door-label) TeX and likes are simply overkill and difficult to use for most of the people. So I am still waiting for the real thing. Thank all who answered so far -- , Peter Dobcsanyi