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