From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 7 19:01:47 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA09908 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 7 May 1996 19:01:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA09903 for ; Tue, 7 May 1996 19:01:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from richardc@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA21009; Tue, 7 May 1996 19:01:32 -0700 Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 19:01:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Richard Chang To: Chuck Robey cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: word processor In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 7 May 1996, Chuck Robey wrote: > On Tue, 7 May 1996, Richard Chang wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > > Is there a word processor for FreeBSD under X that will be able > > to write documents with different fonts or even print out to postscript? > > Thanks! > > There's a couple. the 'doc' application from the 'iv' port does it, but > I don't know that I'd recommend it, because iv is _huge_ (unless you need > a neat C++ graphics/gui library) the size isn't justified. If you have > tex installed (say from the ports teTeX distribution) then noname (yeah, > it's called noname) does print postscript, and it's WYSIWYG. noname > requires Motif, but there's a statically compiled version on > wcarchive.cdrom.com, in pub/FreeBSD/incoming. Hmmm, is noname a Word Processor and is there anyway to do calligraphy type fonts? Richard