Re: Emacs as a word processor

[Christopher Dimech]

> Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2020 at 9:51 AM
> From: "Richard Stallman" <rms@gnu.org>
> To: "Gregory Heytings" <ghe@sdf.org>
> Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, mardani29@yahoo.es
> Subject: Re: Emacs as a word processor
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>   > My impression (but I could very well be wrong) is that what RMS would like
>   > to have is not a truly WYSIWYG word processor that would compete with
>   > LibreOffice, but something simpler.
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> Ideally it would compete with LibreOffice.
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> However, if it can handle editing ODT files the same as LibreOffice,
> but fails to display them as nicely, that would be a big step
> along the way.
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> I suspect that displaying ODT files properly requires figuring out exactly
> how they should render in LibreOffice.

Couldn't a major mode for that work.  For Org-Mode I have seen that Protesilaos
Stavrou has worked on Focused Editing and Proportionately Spaced Typeface.

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