where is a lightweight, simple word processor?

[Lei Chen]

> On May 6, 2008, at 5:31 PM, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> 
>> I have been looking for a simple word processor that supports  
>> formatted
>> text, different fonts and maybe bullet lists. And is close to  
>> WYSIWYG. I
>> don't care about format it can save or import as long as I can find an
>> intermediate tool to do my conversions. I don't need tables. But if  
>> it can
>> plug into another speller that would be nice but not required. Also  
>> images
>> not required, but okay. Support for multiple languages would be nice  
>> but
>> required right now. I will accept losing formatting attributes when
>> importing. Page breaks would be nice but not required.
>>
>> (I often receive and send press releases and other documents that  
>> are in
>> different formats. I don't like losing all the formatting when I  
>> send back
>> an edited document. I don't mind losing hidden metadata.)
>>
>> I found gwp but old 1999 code uses old gnome-libs.
>>
>> I found 1998 maxwell, but haven't figured out build yet on modern  
>> system.
>>
>> siag's pw has crashed a few times on me. And I don't know if  
>> maintained.
>>
>> Ted has worked for me sometimes and failed for me sometimes. I don't  
>> know
>> if still maintained.
>>
>> abiword is too big. kword is too big. oowriter is too big. LyX is  
>> too big.
>> I don't want to require KDE libraries, libgnome, teTeX, or other big
>> dependencies. I don't need hundreds of features just to be able to  
>> edit
>> and provide simple document that has some formatted text. I don't  
>> want to
>> manually type in RTF, XML, or OpenDocument formats.
>>
>> Maybe there is some GTK widget that provides a rich formatting editor?
>>
>> Maybe some rich format editor can be stripped out of some email  
>> client or
>> HTML editor to be a standalone simple light word processor?
>>
> 
> If you were using OS X I'd suggest Bean... Not sure what to tell you!
> 
> --Mike H

Thanks,  Bean is pretty good, just tried it.