> our GHz computers, we were doing previously with old MHz > I've long observed that almost everything we are doing with (Note: dosemu2 doesn't require virtual 8086 mode, so it works fine on x86-64) You could write it in some form of markup, html, TeX, markdown, whatever, but if I'm just trying to format a document I prefer a word processor.

You could use a text editor, but it's not ideal for layout because it doesn't understand things like proportional font geometries - you need that to know how lines/glyphs will fit on the physical page when it's printed. I know about wordgrinder but it's very very basic. I'm not aware of any other full-featured modern word processor that can run in an xterm. It can import TTF fonts and print to PostScript, which I just pipe into ps2pdf and then handle on the host. I find this technically impressive and makes a lot of old DOS software indistinguishable from native linux software stdin/stdout, parameters, host filesystem access, etc all work transparently.

It works beautifully under dosemu2, which has a terminal mode that can translate various VGA modes into S-Lang calls (S-Lang is like ncurses, so no X11 required). I only use it for writing letters and so on, nothing too serious, but I prefer to stay in the terminal if I can. I use WordPerfect 6.2 for DOS, not for any nostalgia or legacy reasons, just because it's a full-featured and highly configurable word processor that I can use in a terminal.

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