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It depends on what features you need. Libre Office is a suite with database, word processor, spreadsheet, Abiword is just a word processor, WordGrinder is term
by kwhitefoot 3y ago
It depends on what features you need. Libre Office is a suite with database, word processor, spreadsheet, Abiword is just a word processor, WordGrinder is terminal based program specifically for first drafts that can export to ODT, HTML, etc., O20.Word is a clone of MS Word 2019, there are more: Calligrawords, Focuswriter, etc.
Abiword is probably the best compromise between simplicity, familiarity, and features. It's also very lightweight.
You should also consider Emacs Org-mode.
- hollerith 3y ago>>WYSIWYG text processor >Emacs Org-mode How is org mode WYSIWYG?
- pests 3y agoI think it fits. But also so do programs like notepad. You literally get what you see. Type some text. There ya go. Its some text.
- Condition1952 3y agoHe he he. I meant “you compose, you set margins, you print”. WYSIWYP
- kwhitefoot 3y agoYou are quite right, it was just a sudden thought before I hit the submit button that such a tool can actually be just as useful as a WYSIWYG word processor. Does anyone remember Wordstar? It was not WYSIWYG but it was perfectly usable. I wrote hundreds of pages of documentation using it on a Z80 extension to an Apple ][. In my opinion such a word processor is in fact more productive than WYSIWYG. Moving to MS Word was a step backwards.