Re: Emacs as word processor

[Daniel Colascione]

On 11/16/2013 11:28 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> 25 years ago I hoped we would extend Emacs to do WYSIWG word
> processing.  That is why we added text properties and variable width
> fonts.  However, more features are still needed to achieve this.

Text properties are very useful on their own.

> Could people please start working on the features that are needed?

I don't think that would be a productive use limited resources. Emacs' 
feature set is either already at a place suitable for "word processing" 
or astronomically distant depending on how you think about the problem: 
Emacs already works _very_ well for document preparation using auctex, 
nxml-mode, and so on. LibreOffice already covers the more conventional 
WYSIWYG space and is free software.