There a quite a few text editors and word processors out there. But I haven’t found one that works well on the L5.
No doubt LibreWriter will do a nice job on a big screen through a hub, but it is complete shite when you try to use it on the L5 itself. Same goes for all the others: they are unusable on the L5.
Of course there are editors like gedit and TextEditor, and others. They work well on the small screen, for sure. But they don’t know how to handle rtf’s, docx’s or odt’s.
So, I have a simple query: is there a word processor out there that can handle a good selection of file formats, is not too heavy on the resources, and works well on the L5 itself?
Your inquiry tempted me to try LyX on my Librem 5, and to my surprise, it is mobile ready! Lines are wrapped to window size, and the tool bars are ended with indicators of more options you can touch to get a drop down menu of the other entries.
That did not work for me. Lots of screen flickering and stuff.
Did not bode well.
I also tried FocusWriter - a favourite of mine on both Windows and Ubuntu. Alas, it didn’t render docx’s or odt’s well.
This is great. I will try it out when I get my Librem 5 back. Had to get the cellular antennas repaired. I was using LibreOffice before though. It worked well but didn’t do text wrapping.
It is a WYSIWYG-like editor for LaTeX. You need to periodically run the document through one of the integrated viewers (DVI, PDF, HTML, EPS…) to see how it will look, but other than that it functions much like a word processor.
It’s pulling in a suite of LaTeX dependencies which consume an enormous amount of disk space. The same applies if you were to install a different LaTeX editor, asciidoc, etc.
