A word processor, formally known as document preparation system, is a computer application used for the production of any sort of printable material, such as composition, editing, formatting, and printing. This category contains a listing of Open Source applications devoted to word processing, text editing, as well as WYSIWYG HTML editing, and more.
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An Open Source word processing application, similar to Microsoft® Word, but openly developed and free for everyone. - AbiWord
http://abiword.org/
Adie is an extremely fast and convenient programming text editor written using the FOX Toolkit; also acts as a convenient file viewer, supporting several methods to move from one file to the next. - Adie
http://www.fox-toolkit.org/adie.html
Azure is an openly developed web log utility that allows you to create/edit web log posts on your phone, PDA, or personal computer. - Azure
http://web.vee.net/projects/azure/
Bean is an open source word processor powered by the same text engine as Apple's Text Edit; is not a replacement for MS Word. - Bean
http://www.bean-osx.com/
Concurrence is a networked file editing program that enables multiple people to modify a document simultaneously. - Concurrence
http://sourceforge.net/projects/concurrence/
Connla creates data collections which can be exported to TXT, CSV, HTML, XHTML, XML, PDF, and XLS formats. - Connla
http://sourceforge.net/projects/connla/
CUPS-PDF is a PDF writer backend for CUPS; designed to produce PDF files in a heterogeneous network. - CUPS-PDF
http://www.cups-pdf.de
Diakonos is a customizable, usable console-based text editor; features arbitrary language scripting, bookmarking, regular expression searching, and much more. - Diakonos
http://purepistos.net/diakonos/
DoubleType is a type designer/font editor that builds TrueType font files, designed with collaborative creation in mind. - DoubleType
http://doubletype.sourceforge.net/
EasyLatex is a pre-processor to make writing LaTeX much easier; generates equivalent LaTeX documents. - EasyLatex
http://sourceforge.net/projects/easylatex/
Eddi is an openly developed, powerful and easy-to-use text editor application for X; can use macros and has syntax highlighting. - Eddi
http://eddi.sourceforge.net/
An openly developed experimental port of Tomboy to C++; complete with documentation and source code download information for this note taking application. - Gnote
http://live.gnome.org/Gnote
GNU ed is an openly developed and clean implementation of the POSIX line-oriented text editor; full-screen editors like GNU Emacs or GNU Moe. - GNU ed
http://www.gnu.org/software/ed/ed.html
GNU Nano is openly developed and released under the GPL as an enhanced clone of the Pico text editor application; for Linux users only. - GNU Nano
http://www.nano-editor.org/
GNU Oleo is a lightweight spreadsheet application utility. - GNU Oleo
http://www.gnu.org/software/oleo/oleo.html
gtex-letter attempts to deliver an easy alternative interface to LaTeX-letter. - gtex-letter
http://gtex-letter.sourceforge.net/
HIDAM aims to be a hierarchical editor that features creation of many types of HD files, plugins for certain types, XML file format, database storage, and much more. - HIDAM
http://hidam.sourceforge.net/
jEdit is an open source text editor; has many useful features, such as syntax highlighting, bracket matching, regular expression searching, multiple file search and replace, folding, and keyboard macros. - jEdit
http://www.jedit.org/
KBabel is a set of tools for editing and managing PO files created by gettext; features full navigation capabilities, full editing functionality, the ability to search for translations in different dictionaries, etc. - JKBabel
http://kbabel.kde.org/
Jove is a compact, powerful, Emacs-style text-edit utility; provides the common emacs keyboard bindings, together with a reasonable assortment of the most popular advanced features. - Jove
http://packages.debian.org/jove
JShowBuilder offers both easy and advanced features for producing web slideshows; can be used to crop images, and has an advanced GUI. - JShowBuilder
http://www.jshowbuilder.com
An openly developed word processor; complete with print output. Contains license, download information, and more. - LyX
http://www.lyx.org/
NEdit is a UNIX text editor for programmers and general users. It combines a standard GUI with the thorough functionality and stability required by users who edit text eight hours a day. - NEdit
http://www.nedit.org/
An openly developed full-featured set of office applications, including word processing; complete with download information, FAQ, and more. - NeoOffice
http://www.neooffice.org/
pptout (passepartout) is a desktop publishing application; features layout templates, an XML- based typesetting engine called xml2ps, user- defined text formatting, etc. - pptout
http://www.stacken.kth.se/project/pptout/
PyCalendarGen generates customizable calendar pages in PDF format for use in things like photo calendars. - PyCalendarGen
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pycalendargen/
Spellchecker is openly developed by Mozilla; essentially a set of spell checkers for the Mozilla browser, with 500,000+ words (English, French, German, etc.). - SpellChecker
http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/
TBT, Time Based Text, allows the user to include more information in written text by saving the time delta between keystrokes. - TBT
http://tbt.dyne.org/
Text Trix is general purpose editor that makes coding easier and more precise; makes large files easier to read and organize, with special plugins to manipulate text according to user-defined settings. - Text Trix
http://textflex.com/texttrix
A desktop note-taking application openly developed for Linux and Unix; fully supported on Windows and OSX. - Tomboy
http://projects.gnome.org/tomboy/
This website offers product trials and downloads of these interrelated desktop applications that comprises of Office Professional 2007, Office Home & Student 2007, Office Standards 2007, Office Small Business 2007 and others; also provides a step-by-step easy to follow guide on how to set up and install your trial. - Try Microsoft Office 2007
http://www.trymicrosoftoffice.com
xtoPDF is a converter of other file formats to PDF; currently supported formats are plain text and .DBF (XBase) files. - xtoPDF
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xtopdf/