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ttuuxxx · Last edited by ttuuxxx on Mon 23 Mar 2009, 10:48; edited 1 time in total

"WordGrinder is a simple, Unicode-aware word processor that runs in a terminal. It supports basic paragraph styles, character styles, just enough screen markup to be useful, and is driven via an easy to use menu interface. "

Ok well I was bored and wanted to see something I haven't seen before. A terminal word processor, well i guess it would be ok for people who have one-bone puppy linux, or something, I even made a menu listing and used the "Grub worm" for the icon lol
Anyways enjoy and if anybody actually like this program please send a line or 2.
thanks
ttuuxxx

to start it type wordgrinder2 in a terminal or use menu/document/wordgrinder

alt+downArrow to get the menu

redandwhitestripes · Joined: 02 Jan 2009 Posts: 163

Used this on Crunchbang but never thought I'd be able to get it running in Puppy! Thanks so much!

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sun 22 Mar 2009, 23:28 Post subject:

jakfish · Joined: 18 Jul 2008 Posts: 766

This is great fun, many thanks for the pet. Too bad a use can't increase font size (tough to read on an eee) or at least go with a bold font to increase readability.

But it's a hoot to play with.

Jake

ttuuxxx · Posted: Mon 23 Mar 2009, 10:53 Post subject:

jakfish · Joined: 18 Jul 2008 Posts: 766

Wow, that was fast. Much obliged again--it's FAR more readable on the eee. I'm trying to think of what use I can put this app to.

Thanks,
Jake

ttuuxxx · Posted: Mon 23 Mar 2009, 12:13 Post subject:

jakfish · Joined: 18 Jul 2008 Posts: 766

You da man here. I don't know how difficult to re-position, but it is a little odd that the cursor places itself in the screen's middle, rather than the top (that may be a programer's favorite position, I wouldn't know--or else I'm doing something completely asinine upon start-up).

edit: on further thought, since there's no drop-down menu (the screen becomes the menu), maybe that's where the cursor must begin.

Jake

ttuuxxx · Posted: Mon 23 Mar 2009, 21:10 Post subject:

jakfish · Joined: 18 Jul 2008 Posts: 766

This is way-cool; I've never heard of Sakura before. I'm running wordgrinder on black background/white text/Arial bold. Looks better on the screen than OOO 3.0 or my Wine/MS Word 97 Smile

Nice that Sakura remembers your previous font choice. I may never use regular console again.

Jake

ttuuxxx · Posted: Mon 23 Mar 2009, 21:57 Post subject:

Well if you like that jake Smile

have a look at the thread for it, I made it look like a C-64 once, lol Plus it does transparent backgrounds etc.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=202704#202704

ttuuxxx

jakfish · Joined: 18 Jul 2008 Posts: 766

I've got these apps on the puppy_save file--the ultimate accolade Smile

Thanks again,
Jake

mcewanw · Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 3194 Location: New Zealand

Sakura looks interesting and I'll give it a try sometime, though there are other ways of doing such magnification, even in the default Puppy terminals (I did some coding in the past to do that but I'll have to look that out). According to the info below, however, Sakura itself is (or was?) not as lightweight, in terms of process usage, as some terminal offerings.

The Debian forum thread at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=467375 suggests that evilvte or lxterminal may also be worth looking at [extract follows]:

"I didn't upload it because the current version isn't good enough. It
takes more memory than other vte-based terminals because it doesn't
share a single process for multiple terminals.
. . .
Good work. I am still interested to see a really resource saving
terminal in Debian. I didn't upload sakura into debian becaure it's
useless if it's not really saving the resources.

Please have a look there is a fork called evilvte in debian which save
more resources. And another VTE-based terminal callled lxterminal saves
more"

mcewanw · Joined: 16 Aug 2007 Posts: 3194 Location: New Zealand

Might also be worth checking out http://lxde.org/ which is a lightweight desktop (uses Openbox window manager) from which lxterminal apparently comes. Parts/most of LXDE are used by Slitaz and TinyMe. See also the related threads:

pet of lxterminal: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=335579092&p=278512#278512

Boxpup (uses Openbox): http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=35767&search_id=335579092

redandwhitestripes · Joined: 02 Jan 2009 Posts: 163

There's a new version of Wordgrinder out:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/wordgrinder/files/wordgrinder/0.3.2/wordgrinder-0.3.2.tar.bz2/download