Best Word Processing Software & Text Editors for Linux

Antiword is a free MS-Word reader for Linux, RISC OS, and DOS. Antiword converts the documents from Word 2, 6, 7, 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003 to text, Postscript, and XML/DocBook.Antiword tries to keep the layout of the document intact.The programmers'...

Songpress is a free song typesetting software (or "ChordPro formatter"). It allows you to create and print lyrics and chords (as in guitar scores), quickly and easily. You create a song in the popular ChordPro format. Just place chords in square...

Siag Office project is a free office package which consists of the spreadsheet Siag, the word processor PW, the animation program Egon, the text editor XedPlus, the file manager Xfiler and the previewer Gvu.Siag is easy to use, yet infinitely flexible...

Chiel is a network capable collaborative text editor. It is designed to allow multiple users to edit files on a host computer collaboratively. It features syntax highlighting for a number of languages, and seeks to be as light as a feather so you can...

logfilter is a Python app handy for real-time processing of very long log files.Take the command tail -f, combine it with grep -e PATTER [-e PATTERN ...], and add a simple GUI enabling users to choose the the log file to observe and the filters to use:...

The Bookwrite project is designed to help book authors to write their books very easily. It provides a full screen editor without any nuisances, that allow authors to focus completely on their texts. It also provides a few other features, that will...

C# for Emacs is a derived mode implementing most of the C# rules.After a good number of years, we noticed that there wasn't a "non-patched" version of a csharp-mode for Emacs.There were a few, but most of them had comments that they were "in progress" or...

SaptoPad is a free and graphical text editor written in the Java programming language and designed to act as a simple text editor, similar to Windows NotePad.Being written in Java, SaptoPad is a platform-independent application that supports Linux, Mac...

RubyRoom is a fullscreen text editor (using gtk2 for the interface) with as less distractions as possible. Full screen gives you a complete workspace for your text, and nothing else. No IM windows popping up, no more "you got mail" small animations on...

Txt Reader is a text reader software, mainly used for reading text originally novels.It is available as simplified Chinese and English...