#emacs Hi, all ! I was wondering if anyone could help me with a link (or textpost/reply) on how I can get started with emacs.

I'd like to use it as a replacement for the largest proprietary word processor (er-hem, MS 🪟).

ik i can simply search the web & also read emacs' documentation, which I will, but i'm soliciting recommendations of what guides you personally like!

Thank u !! 🫶

#wordprocessing #texteditor #substitute

Also, have a superb week ‼️🐝

My personal experience is just the opposite. Admittedly I rarely use Word, but when I do I have terrible problems with the way it changes formats for no obvious reason. At least LaTeX allows transparent and precise control of layout. For complicated text with a lot of mathematical formulae LaTeX (or one of the other TeX packages) wins hands down for me. What do others think?

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From: @dfaria
https://masto.pt/@dfaria/110282225849196974

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@blakespot Early on,
Scripsit: https://archive.org/details/scripsit-word-processor-training-program-cat-26-1506-1979/mode/2up

Then AtariWriter: https://archive.org/details/AtariWriter/mode/2up

Paperclip was the best word processor of all time: https://www.atarimagazines.com/v4n1/paperclip.html

AppleWorks at school, and some 1st Word ST, but not heavily.

By late '80s/early '90s I mostly used vi and troff for my "word processing", but had WordPerfect on the ST; IIRC I got a student discount and the shitty thin version of the manual, not the full thing.

Now BBEdit & multimarkdown.

#retrocomputing #wordprocessing

More tidying up my study desk, prior to setting up my new desktop computer (hopefully tomorrow). Rediscovering a whole bunch of interesting books. #Books #History #DigitalHumanities #BookHistory #FamilyHistory #RhodeIsland #WordProcessing #Shelfie #Academia

Have fun with Google Fonts. Here are some teachers may like, and how you can add them to your documents in Google. https://blog.tcea.org/add-google-fonts/

#education #GoogleEDU #Google #Fonts #tcea #edtech #WordProcessing

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It came with my pea sea
It plainly marques four my revue
Miss Steaks eye can knot sea.
Eye strike a quay and type a whirred
And weight four it two say
Weather eye am wrong oar write
It shows me strait a weigh.
As soon as a mist ache is maid
It nose bee fore two long
And eye can put the error rite
Its rare lea ever wrong.
Eye have run this poem threw it
I am shore your pleased two no
Its letter perfect in it's weigh
My chequer tolled me sew.
(Sauce unknown)

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Recommended free word processors | Diverse Tech Geek

https://www.diversetechgeek.com/recommended-free-word-processors/

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Recommended free word processors | Diverse Tech Geek

https://www.diversetechgeek.com/recommended-free-word-processors/

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The following are two FLOSS word processors I've used and liked:

1) FocusWriter
a) Arch Linux official repository package:
https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/focuswriter
b) Developer's website: https://gottcode.org/focuswriter

2) WordGrinder (console-based)
a) AUR package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/wordgrinder
b) Developer's website: https://cowlark.com/wordgrinder

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@teledyn I attempted to answer your question using 21st century #Wordprocessing software. It resulted in a #Dadaist #CollagePoem #ProsePoem and #VisualPoetry. #Vispo #MastoArt #DigitalArt #AsemicArt #DeconstructedText #AsemicText #Dada #Dadaism #WordProcessor #MassMedia I guess it is how you use the software.

Interesting bit of trivia. Author Len Deighton was the first person to write a book with a word processor, an IBM MTST (Magnetic Tape Selectric Typewriter) in 1970.

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Article from 2013.

https://slate.com/culture/2013/03/len-deightons-bomber-the-first-book-ever-written-on-a-word-processor.html

Interesting. A review of the book, "Track Changes: A Literary History of Word Processing" on the history of word processing and the people who used it. Includes an interesting anecdote on Neal Stephenson.

#Books #Review #History #WordProcessing #WordProcessor #Writing #Authors

https://www.tug.org/books/reviews/tb118reviews-kirschenbaum.html

From the New York Times, an obituary of an unsung inventor: Evelyn Berezin, who build the first true word processor.

#ComputerHistory #Computers #WordProcessing #Obituaries

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/obituaries/evelyn-berezin-dead.html

How to select a range of pages in Word.
https://www.extendoffice.com/documents/word/1210-word-select-a-range-of-pages.html
This....is very helpful. I wanted to share.
#stupidwordtricks #microsoftword #macros #poweruser #writing #writers #writerslife #indieauthors #wordprocessing #word