There is _still_ no other word processor I'm aware of that can properly convert to title case. Not to mention Reveal Codes. I... might actually use this, not just play with it.
I was a computer labs staffer in the early 90s, and for a lot of students our labs were their first exposure to word processors, and man, I hated supporting WordPerfect for DOS. Students couldn't figure out how to apply formatting correctly. Trying to change something's format, they would would reveal codes and delete half of a formatting code pair. I spent so much time explaining why half their paper was now in italics or bold.
> There is _still_ no other word processor I'm aware of that can properly convert to title case. Not to mention Reveal Codes. I... might actually use this, not just play with it.
Equation editor and outlines with 'move family' type functionality as well. Those are not exclusive features but interesting for a terminal application.
You could also use the vim :%!python3 your_script.py (where your_script.py does the work to format the text) command that takes the text of the buffer as stdin to the script and replaces the buffer contents with stdout of the script. This can also be combined with visual mode linewise to only replace specific lines of the buffer (must work on entire lines selected).
This is interesting! My first exposure to Unix was in 1990 when my mother worked for a law firm in California. Everyone had dumb terminals on their desks connected to a very very large tower computer in the server room. I don't remember anything about it (I was only about 14) except that it said Santa Cruz operations Unix on it.
And of course, at her desk I could see my mom log into her Unix account and launch WordPerfect with wp. I was blown away! There was also a spreadsheet application but I have to admit that I don't remember what it was. It was probably Lotus 123 but I don't know if it was ported to Unix or not.
Little did I know that I would be making a living with Linux all these years later!
The mission of the Open Source Applications Foundation (OSAF) was..
Carry forward the vision of Vannevar Bush, Doug Engelbart, and Ted Nelson of the computer as a medium for communication, collaboration, and coordination.
Design a new application to manage personal information including notes, mail, tasks, appointments and events, contacts, documents and other personal resources.
Enable sharing with colleagues, friends and family. In particular, meet the unique and under-served needs of small group collaboration.
I keep on hoping that some day the IBM mainframe port (MVS and VM/CMS) might turn up. It was further away from the DOS original than the UNIX port was, due to the changes required by 3270 block mode terminals.
My recollection is that WordPerfect Office on minicomputers had its own spreadsheet application. Wikipedia says "PlanPerfect". By now I don't remember.
As a SCO Unix and MS Xenix developer, I remember having to write lots of nasty little programs in C to do stuff with it and its files, just to make it usable. It had a terrible trick of writing multiple documents to the same file.
Before Outlook there were many, many options, which is kind of the point. You might be intrigued by something like All-In-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALL-IN-1
My own first email client was VMS Mail at uni in 1988, then pine when I started to use SunOS and Solaris every day for work. Lotus Notes was very big for a while too before the web killed it off.
Maybe something like Pine? Even into Web 1.0 days, it was still pretty common for people to use. Everyone in my high school accessed their school-provided email account by telnetting into a Unix server and accessing Pine via a menu system.
After reading the FAQ and Tips and Tricks, I can only imagine how amazing a modern terminal WordPerfect clone with Vim keybindings would be. I write a lot of pandoc markdown documents, vim and vscode are fine, but they are text editors not word processors.
Oh, neat. We actually ran WordPerfect for SCO Unix back in the day. This was on a dual-processor Acer / Altos system, with a whole bunch of serial terminals. That was the first Unix system I had ever purchased! Though one of the two CPUs had to be disabled because of OS stability issues.
I wanted to use Livingston Portmaster Ethernet terminal servers, but was overridden by my boss. I eventually got them anyway, because expanding the RS-485 for the serial ports was severely limited.
Overall, WP ran pretty well on the hardware of the day. With Wyse 160 terminals running at 115200 bps, it wasn't quite as fast as on a DOS PC, but still pretty snappy. It even had print preview, because the 160 was a graphics terminal.
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WYSIWYG works so much better for most people.
"table knives work so much better for most people"
Like this?
http://aitech.ac.jp/~ckelly/midi/help/caps.html
The GP was talking about a particular type of formatting:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_case
And of course, at her desk I could see my mom log into her Unix account and launch WordPerfect with wp. I was blown away! There was also a spreadsheet application but I have to admit that I don't remember what it was. It was probably Lotus 123 but I don't know if it was ported to Unix or not.
Little did I know that I would be making a living with Linux all these years later!
(Although it was more likely procalc - a popular low-end lotus clone)
I'm also working on porting dBase IV, another popular package from the era :)
Lotus Agenda for DOS is unmatched to this day, despite an epic reboot catastrophe, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Source_Applications_Found...
EccoPro (successor to Agenda) for Windows works on Apple Silicon Macs via Wine/Crossover, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecco_Pro & https://groups.io/g/EccoProI keep on hoping that some day the IBM mainframe port (MVS and VM/CMS) might turn up. It was further away from the DOS original than the UNIX port was, due to the changes required by 3270 block mode terminals.
As a SCO Unix and MS Xenix developer, I remember having to write lots of nasty little programs in C to do stuff with it and its files, just to make it usable. It had a terrible trick of writing multiple documents to the same file.
Maybe something like Pine? Even into Web 1.0 days, it was still pretty common for people to use. Everyone in my high school accessed their school-provided email account by telnetting into a Unix server and accessing Pine via a menu system.
https://cdn.hackaday.io/files/1604126863067008/UI__3_WordPer...
It was mainly just a technical exercise, but comments like yours make me think that people would actually use it.
I wonder though which terminal with sixels Tavis used on Windows to produce the screenshots in README. Can't recognize the icon.
EDIT: it already does.
For a libre alternative, I suggest wordgrinder.
Or, much better, groff+mom, and entr+make to run
Viewers like MUPDF will update the document on file changes I think.Help on Groff+Mom:
https://www.schaffter.ca/mom/mom-01.html
I wanted to use Livingston Portmaster Ethernet terminal servers, but was overridden by my boss. I eventually got them anyway, because expanding the RS-485 for the serial ports was severely limited.
Overall, WP ran pretty well on the hardware of the day. With Wyse 160 terminals running at 115200 bps, it wasn't quite as fast as on a DOS PC, but still pretty snappy. It even had print preview, because the 160 was a graphics terminal.