On 02/10/2013 12:07 PM, Idris Samawi Hamid ادريس سماوي حامد wrote:
I never heard of retext before, so I spent some time with it... thanks
for the reference! Unicode support seems solid, even bidi (via Qt).
OTOH it's waaay too geeky for the average citizen to install -- too
many steps (python, pyqt,...), have to search for your .conf file
through a python interpreter and you still can't find it after that
etc. Then in Windows it turns out to be an .ini file, not a .conf
file! Then you have to make a .bat file to start it with a mouse
click, etc.
I'm spoiled by Linux:
prompt$ sudo apt-get install retext
installs ReText and all dependencies.//If you must have a GUI, Synaptic
or even Ubuntu Software Center make it pretty easy by hiding the apt
infrastructure. They will still auto-load all dependencies. I like GUI
stuff but I've been using computers from before there even was a command
line so command lines are not scary for /me/. Yes, I'm that old./
Once in a while/ Linux is easier to use than Windows. ;-)
Glad you found something that works well.
--
Bill Meahan
Westland, Michigan USA
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