* Brian Durant; <durant@cbn.net.id> on 15 Apr, 2002 wrote:
I ask, because I understood that Emacs was sort of a Swiss Army Knife for much of what is needed within word processing. While I haven't used it yet, I understand that there is minimal spreadsheet and graphics support now, but of course there is no Power Point type module. Are there command line word processors out there that work as well as Word or WordPerfect, or is that part of the problem?
With Emacs you can do lot's of things the question is IMO how do you want to do it ? If you want to do it the "GUI" way click Next click Next I do not think emacs will suit your needs. On the other hand, using Emacs as your editor and using DocBook XML Slides DTD ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/docbook ) with DocBook XSL StyleSheets you will have your Powerpoint Slides and you can produce output in any format PDF, PS, HTML, XHTML, Text, MIF, RTF. So the real question is do you have the time to learn a new method as with docbook content and style are two different things. If you want to produce simple documents name it articles whitepapers then Docbook Simple DTD should be sufficent, if you are interested in making technical documents then DocBook XML/SGML will mostly satisfy your needs. If you want Websites then DocBook WebSite DTD will help you in producing the webpages. Now all this is possible with Emacs basicly using these DTD (Document Tyep Definitions) and you are producing valid XML files which you can apply the proper stylesheets and achieve quality results. HTH -- Togan Muftuoglu Unofficial SuSE FAQ Maintainer http://dinamizm.ath.cx