WordGrinder Reviews and details

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• How would you write a novel in Word/Pages?

  There are some people trying to recreate the Wordstar experience, like this one, and they supposedly were great and simple for writing long-form content (it was before my time, so I have no experience with it). Source: 10 months ago

• Lightweight Word Processor

  WordGrinder. It's great for distraction-free writing, and can output Markdown or troff. It's a great tool for getting words down, but its otherwise pretty limited (which I think is one of its strengths). When I need to print or generate a PDF, I have a little script. Source: 11 months ago

• Is there a way to have a full TUI desktop environment?

  For word processing there's WordGrinder, which is in the repos for many distros (in Fedora: dnf install wordgrinder). Things like LaTeX and Groff are for typesetting, which I don't view as the same as word processing. WordGrinder is more like the classical DOS word processors (e.g. WordPerfect 5.1). Source: about 1 year ago

• Building the fastest Lua interpreter.. automatically!

  I have a word processor I wrote (https://cowlark.com/wordgrinder) which is mostly written in Lua, with hardware-specific stuff in C, and while this works extremely well, I'd very much like something with stronger typing. There's a possibility I'd be able to just drop in Luau and get it, plus some performance benefits. I'd need to reimplement parts of the standard library due to Luau having dropped things like the... Source: over 1 year ago

• Anyone else prefers using Notepad over Word?

  I really like using WordGrinder, a terminal-based text editor. It has pretty much only the features I need and otherwise gets out of the way and let's me write. You can check it out here if you're interested. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Lightweight alternative to libreoffice

  This depends on the content of the .odt files. If it's just rich text there are many tools including wordgrinder. Libreoffice can also convert between text and odt using --convert-to flag from command line or you can use odt2txt or pandoc. If the odt file as many complex formats including equations, drawings, references and so on then the conversion may not work properly. Source: almost 2 years ago

• List of essential software I have been using. Most of these are commandline with few GUIs.

  I would substitute dateutils for 17 and wordgrinder for 3 instead of pdd and abiword. Also, p7zip instead of 20, zip and unzip. For calendar (18), I like gcal which could also be used as 29, reminder. For a nice TUI ebook reader, I like epy. Source: about 2 years ago

• Best TUI Windows Word Processor

  For a word processor, maybe have a look at wordgrinder. Source: over 2 years ago

• What should I make an E Ink typewriter out of?

  I'd recommend a Raspberry Pi instead of an Arduino / microcontroller of any sort. There are console/textmode word processors like WordGrinder that is perfect and completely distraction free. With a microcontroller you might end up having to program it from scratch, which is fine if that's your thing. Source: over 2 years ago

• What's your writing tool of choice? Why?

  WordGrinder - very clean, very fast, super easy to use. I've switched to it for all first-draft fiction writing. Source: over 2 years ago