68K Professional Text Editor

[trekiej]

Thanks to all who replied.

[zylesea]

Take a PC, use emacs, write in LaTeX. The learning curve is steep, but you get a high-quality layout. For anything larger than an article, "Word" - or leave alone AmiWrite or WordWorth is not exactly suitable.

I once set a book in Amigawriter for printing. Worked pretty nicely and was designed quite well. Unfortunately the program is a bit unstable. I don't use it any more, but I did quite some work with it (beside the book a few university protocols). But rule #1 save, save and save your work - it can crash any time.
If I use a word processor on AMiga these days it's Wordworth, but usually I don't do that, but use other systems for word processing (Win or OS X with OOo, Word or InDesign)

And for MS Word: I cannot understand the badmouthing of Word. Current Word is very capable for highly complex documents. Still I prefer InDesign for setting a document, but Word is definitely a very mature and powerful word processor.

[dovegrace]

Any other Final Writer fans here (apart from myself)?

[trekiej]

What are the OS 4.1 F.E. hopefuls?
While I am at it, what office software is there for OS4?

[Bodie]

. I stopped experimenting with these programs a long time ago, switched to LaTeX and never looked back.  .

Would like to second this, particularly for large documents. I recently completed my dissertation in LaTeX. Although steep learning curve, it made handling of tables, graphics, equations and so forth so much easier than modern word processors, saving me a lot of frustration.

PS: Does OS4 or MorphOS have a LateX DISTRO?

[kolla]

For writing a book, depending on what kind of book it is, you may just want something that is fast and non-intrucive to your typing, using anything beyond a fast and simple text editor can cause too much distraction. I am most comfortable using vim, but just use whatever text editor you find comfortable and don't worry about layout, just the text and the arrangement.

When you are done writing the book, you import your text into something that can take care of the layout for you. Ask your book press company what formats they accept, and pick your tools accordingly.

[kolla]

What are the OS 4.1 F.E. hopefuls?
While I am at it, what office software is there for OS4?

Well, there is rdesktop :laughing:

[LiveForIt]

What are the OS 4.1 F.E. hopefuls?

Lurking topic says 68K.

While I am at it, what office software is there for OS4?

Well many of the old Programs for 680x0 that works on AmigaOS4.x
(While this program are not under active development anymore, they are not outdated, and might be OK for some things)

Word processing.

* WordWorth

Text editors.

* CED
* GoldED
* CubicED
* FrexxED

Check out the compatibility list:

http://www.intuitionbase.com/ossoftware.php


AmigaOS4.x software office program.

* Cinnamon Writer
(this is getting better and better for every version)

Cyngix programs, (Linux ports that need X windows).

* AbiWord
Modern word processing.

If you interested programming there there is few.

* CodeBench,
* Annotate.
* NoWinED

For more software look here:

http://www.amigaos.net/applications


I have been thinking about writing a UTF8 text editor, as thats lacking on AmigaOS3.x and AmigaOS4.x, many Text documents are in UTF8, like XML and HTML files and so on, so it makes sense.

[Thorham]

What are the best text editors for Amiga 68K?

FrexxEd for AOS3 (and 2 I think). Very powerful because of it's script system. The only drawback is the crappy out of the box configuration (my current config is sooooooo much better). A great editor for people who want control over EVERYTHING, and who want to add functionality.

CygnusEd is very good, but rather basic.

GoldEd and CubicIde are only good if you can bare the editing model. I personally hate them with a passion.

Bottom line: CygnusEd is a quality car repair shop. FrexxEd is a car manufacturing plant.

[Linde]

Vim is a good text editor that is still actively developed and widely used. It takes an effort to get used to it and it's probably a better fit for programming than for prose, but I use it for both.

[trekiej]

OS 4, oh just saying.

[paul1981]

BED satisfies my text editing needs.

[AmiDude]

TurboText here...

[Linde]

OS 4, oh just saying.

I'm not sure that this is a response to my post, but Vim originates from the 68k Amiga. The official website still provides 68k binaries.

[swift240]

Yeah I use FinalWriter 97  a lot, its very capable.

[trekiej]

It was mentioned that the subject contained 68K apps. I thought I would throw OS4 into it while I was at it.