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By: Howto: Use Wordgrinder like a pro « Motho ke motho ka botho

Howto: Use Wordgrinder like a pro « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 23:45:44 +0000

[...] the same time, Wordgrinder came to my attention, and while I wasn’t keen on describing how to compile and install it, the fact that [...]

By: Renan Mara

Renan Mara — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:48:11 +0000

how do i install the wordgrinder? im using kahel os, its an arch based linux distro.

By: enpi

enpi — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:38:42 +0000

Hi everybody. I am the author of that minimalistic script enpi.

First of all, I would like to thank this blog for reviewing my simple program.

I have noticed that most visitors to the script site come from here, so I have decided to post here the announcement of the new version 0.3, as the thread in the Ubuntu Forums where I posted about versions 0.1 and 0.2

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=669599

seems to have been discontinued.

So, just wanted to announce that version 0.3 is out. Enpi 0.3 features a few improvements (support of hidden comments, strikeout superscripts and subscripts), and above all it is fully Ubuntu compatible now. Ubuntu users will not have to fiddle with the script to have it work under their OS. The only requirement for them is to install a couple of additional packages (see the enpiscript site or the documentation).

Best regards and ciao.

By: shuhada

shuhada — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:46:06 +0000

thank for your warm wishing

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:44:59 +0000

Interesting! I thought it was broken at the code level. Can you explain how you installed it?

By: mads

mads — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:27:38 +0000

Have been playing with (well, actually working in) WordGrinder since I built/installed it yesterday and I’m very pleased with it. The Functionality is pretty much limited to displaying menus and using customized shortcuts and formatting options corresponds to basic html but the ncurses interface is very intuitive and wonderfully unobtrusive (basically it’s your text and a status bar; the menus appear when pressing ESC). A neat little feature is that each wordgrinder file can contain multiple documents – great for keeping an in-file-clipboard alongside your regular document. Needless to say, as of now, you’ll need to export to html or plain text and do more intensive formatting in OOo Writer or the like but just for typing, navigation and basic formattting.

Screen shots (it’s running in my on-desktop-terminal in gnu screen):
http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs329&d=08314&f=2008-07-31-171559_1280x800_scrot209.png

By: K.Mandla

K.Mandla — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 22:54:31 +0000

Thanks everybody. I hadn’t seen that thread with the PKGBUILD in it, I’m going to try that right now.

By: Karthik

Karthik — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 11:05:12 +0000

Oops- the thumbnails didn’t show up. Everyone _does_ love screenshots, here they are:

http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs225&d=08120&f=enpi1638.png

http://xs.to/xs.php?h=xs125&d=08120&f=enpi2374.png

By: Karthik

Karthik — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 10:17:55 +0000

I haven't tried Wordgrinder yet; the website mentions that it's not stable and having to remove packages I've compiled is a real pain! I did have a go at Enpi: (Enpi is just a wrapper script for TeX. The preview of the dvi it generated is GhostView, the images have me editing the file with vi, and running Enpi, respectively.)

By: tamihania

tamihania — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 09:49:11 +0000

Hi – and thank you for reminder about the programs. FYI – there in a PKGBUILD of WordGrinder on Arch forum – here’s the link:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=44386
I did not try it yet – but I plan to do it ASAP.

Have a nice and sunny day,

tami