SuperLinux Encyclopedia - Word Processing, File Viewers, & etc.

Office Suites:

• General Subject:
  • Freshmeat: Office Applications
• Focus On Linux has a great list.
• Applixware:
  • Applixware  $
• Axene  $; cheap; looks good; nice site.
• Caldera  $ Integrates StarOffice with "OpenLinux" OS distribution.
• Siag Office  Spreadsheet, word processor, presentation graphics.
• StarOffice  $ and free; Comprehensive.
• SuSE's "Linux Office Suite"

Word Processors, Editors:

• Also see "Office Suites" on this page.
• General Subject:
  • Freshmeat: Editors (GUI)
  • Freshmeat: Editors (TUI)
  • Linux Word Processing  Christopher Browne's discussion and list.
  • Linux Text Editors and A New One  Jan'97 LG
  • Editor Review  Aug'96 LG
  • Exuberant Ctags  A better ctags with support for C, C++, Eiffel, Fortran and Java.
  • What has WYSIWYG done to us?  Especially releted to typesetting.
  • Word Processing vs. Text Processing?  Oct'97 LG
• Other lists:
  • X-based editors 
  • X-based editors 
• Binary File Editors:
  • bvi  vi-like binary file editor
  • Emacs  Doesn't even need an add-on package.
  • Others: Probably several other programmer's editors.

• AbiWord  From AbiSource; early developer releases as of Oct'98.
• AUIS - Andrew User Interface System:
  • Review  At 32-Bits Online. [precise link broke]
  • Review  Jan'96 LG
• Byzance  "a cooperative structured editor"
• Cooledit  With Python interpreter extensibility.
• Crisp  $ and demo; Programming editor. [LJ ads]
• DocWiz  "allows you to easily add JavaDoc comments to your Java source code".
• Emacs  The best! Sort of an office suite also. Many special modules standard and add-on.
• FTE - A Folding Editor from the OS/2 world:
  • FTE Editor
  • Review  Jan'96 LG
• GLUe - The G Layout Utensil  GNOME replacement for Pagemaker or QuarkXPress.
• GXEdit  Full-featured programmer's editor.
• ImPress  Desktop publishing and presentation tool.
• ISPF clone: THE  A REXX/IBM editor.
• Jade  "validation and formatting of SGML or XML"
• jed home FTP dir  Small programming editor with good emacs emulation; vi, other emulation too.
• jEdit  "powerful, easy to use, extensible text editor"
• joe Command Reference  Small programming editor; at sunsite.
• JWP - Japanese Word Processor
• lpe - lightweight programmer's editor: Search c.o.l.a Dec'98; FTP only.
• LyX  LaTeX-based, but WYSIWYG. Nice. Also see TeX page.
• Maxwell Word Processor:
  • Home Page
  • Review  Apr'98 LG
• Madeus  "an authoring system for multimedia documents"
• NEdit (Said to be very good; supports mouse-based editing.):
  • NEdit    Jan'98 LG
  • NEdit Aug'96 LG
• SlickEdit  Or "Visual SlickEdit"; commercial high-quality programmer's editor.
• TED  Works with RTF files. Alternate site
• TeX  And LateX, LyX, TexInfo, Thot
• Thot structured editor for Linux (WSIWYG -> HTML, LaTex, etc.)
• TkEdit  Jan'96 LG
• vi & variants:
  • Elvis review  Mar'96 LG
  • VI:
    • Vi Quick Reference (PDF file)
    • VI intro  Aug'96 LG
    • Still more VI Tricks  Nov'95 LG
  • Vile:
    • Vile  Canonical site; same finger-feel as vi; with more modern features.
    • A vile Page  Tutorials, Macros, Modes, etc.
    • Vile and Xvile; review  Mar'96 LG
  • VIM:
    • If you gotta use VI, use VIM  Aug'95 LG
    • Revisiting VIM  Jun'98 LG
    • Pick an Editor, Any Editor -- VIM  Feb'97 LG
• Webmaker  HTML editor.
• Wily  "fashioned after Plan 9's Acme Text Editor"
• WordPerfect (Corel):
  • Corel
  • WordPerfect mini-HOWTO  How to set up WordPerfect for Linux. (WP 7?)
  • Comparing WordPerfect and LyX  Apr'98 LG (WP 7?)
• Xcoral tarball
• A look at XEdit  Ext2 emag article about a small editor for X.

Viewers, Readers (also see in Graphics for image viewers):

• Freshmeat: Viewers (text)
• Freshmeat: Viewers (X11)
• catdoc   "cat" for M$Word docs.
• Doczilla  SGML and XML browser based on Mozilla code.
• Digital SRC's Virtual Paper project  Lecturn program; a better way to view documents.
• Less:
  • Less is just a Whole Lot More!  Nov'95 LG
  • ZLess followup and tips  Jan'96 LG
• pinfo  ncurses-based "info" and "man" page viewer. Lynx-like.
• richtext  "package for previewing RTF documentation"
• xpdf: a PDF viewer for X
• Text mode viewers: more, zmore, cat, zcat, less, zless, od
• Postscript, Ghostscript, Ghostview and GSview; see in Postscript

Other Text Processing:

• Postscript
• lout:
  • home page
  • A note on lout
• Indexing Texts with Smart  Jan'97 LG
• Spelling tools:
  • ispell - Stand-alone and Emacs versions. Checks files, regions, words. Gives suggestions. Has dictionary.
  • aspell  More intellegent than ispell.
• Writer's Work Bench, Documenter's Work Bench:
  • WWB doc  Original (70s) Unix word processing toolset.
  • DWB - Documenter's Work Bench  Renamed Writer's Work Bench.
  • Ask Slashdot: Whatever happened to Unix's Writer's Workbench?
• YODL: A New, Easy-To-Use Text Formatting Language  Sep'96 LG
• Freshmeat: Text Utilities

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