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Oh, woops! Misread TextEdit for TextMate! That said, I find that Wordpad is a fantastic simplistic tool for creating school papers. For Linux I tend to use the
by jpd 18y ago
Oh, woops! Misread TextEdit for TextMate! That said, I find that Wordpad is a fantastic simplistic tool for creating school papers. For Linux I tend to use the slightly more complex (yet still very clean) LyX.
- unalone 18y agoWordpad is really good, but it lacks the wow factor of TextEdit (which I'm slightly addicted to). I've never used LyX; forgive me if this is a dumb question, but is it available for Ubuntu? I might boot up a virtual machine and give it a try if so.
- sharkbrainguy 18y agoSure is, it's in the repo so "sudo apt-get install lyx" should grab it. It's also available for Windows/OS X so you might be better off just trying it on your primary OS. http://www.lyx.org/ http://www.lyx.org/ I don't think you're going to find the kind of simplicity you enjoy in TextEdit though. Personally I use text-editors e.g. vim, for every kind of writing I do, code or not. Plaintext formats like http://eleanor.rubyforge.org/ http://eleanor.rubyforge.org/ (for screenplays) and Taskpaper (for planning/todo lists) are really helpful for this sort of thing.