WordGrinder

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 Open source, cross-platform "word processor for words", extensible in Lua

 Author:   David Given.
 Homepage: http://wordgrinder.sourceforge.net/
 Family:   WordProcessorFamily ScriptedEditorFamily
 Platform: Windows Linux
 License:  New BSD License

WordGrinder is a Unicode-aware character cell word processor that runs in a terminal (or a Windows console). It is designed to get the hell out of your way and let you get some work done.

WordGrinder is a word processor for processing words. It is not WYSIWYG. It is not point and click. It is not a desktop publisher. It is not a text editor. It is not do fonts and it barely does styles. What it does do is words. It's designed for writing text. It gets out of your way and lets you type.

The author wrote it to have something to write novels on.

Features you might like:

Ultra-clean, uncluttered display.
Looks good even on a terminal.
Single- and double-width Unicode character support. No right-to-left or combining characters, unfortunately, but everything else should work.
Intuitive, friendly menu system and fast-access keyboard shortcuts. The keyboard shortcuts are all configurable from within WordGrinder.
All configuration settings get saved automatically in your document.
Just enough character and paragraph style support to let you get the job done, while not enough to let you waste time configuring them.
Multiple documents in a single file.
HTML import and export.
LaTeX and Troff export.
Small and efficient codebase. (6300 lines of code!)

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