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On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:50:41 +0000 (UTC)
> baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org wrote:
>
> > I am still looking for a non-gui (non-mouse-based, fast, small) way to
> > produce a document format that MS WORD will import, which is Wordperfect
> > 5.1 (or later), html (style sheets needed to do page breaks), rtf, or pdf.

>   MS WORD will also import plain text.  And there are plenty of text to 
> rtf/html converters.

I need to supply formatted text. Bold, underline, center, page break. rtf 
is a nuisance to type.  tex looks much simpler to learn.  I can type html 
but not the page breaks.  I can toggle html/WYSIWYG using lynx and pico 
and 'e' to edit.

>   For Linux, I use Nedit (requires X).
>
>   For DOS I use Pedit (CLI or Windows).

e3pi or nano work in linux with or without X.  Maybe X would be helpful so 
I could view formatting and WYSIWYG on one screen.

>   Both operate with or without a mouse.

But do they produce formatted text that can be converted to rtf?
That is the advantage of tex or groff.

So far I need the files 'tex' and 'tex.fmt' from tetex.tgz to produce a 
dvi file that I can view with xdvi or convert with latex2rtf, and also 
instructions on how to format a document in .tex.  Not the rest of 65M of 
two packages, half of that fonts.

> Regards,
>         Ron
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