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Features

TextMaker for Linux comes with all the features you expect from a high-end word processor – and many more:

 

File Handling:

Direct document exchange with TextMaker for Windows, TextMaker for Pocket PCs, and TextMaker for Handheld PCs – no conversion required, no loss of formatting

Seamless document exchange with Microsoft Word 6.0, 95, 97, 2000, and Word XP

Reads and writes numerous additional file formats – HTML, RTF, Pocket Word, ASCII, Unicode

Integrated file manager

 

Editing Text:

Almost unlimited undo/redo

     

Fields for date/time etc.
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Search/replace text and formatting

Sophisticated table support

Sort text and tables

Calculations in text and tables

Outliner

Insert fields like date, time, page number, author, auto-numbers etc.

Character map for inserting special characters

Bookmarks

"SmartText" feature: just type "asap" and "as soon as possible" will appear (fully customizable)

Create forms including text fields, checkboxes, lists, calculations etc.

 

Formatting Text:

Character formatting
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All character and paragraph formatting capabilities you expect from a high-end word processor

Extended character formats like small caps, font color, hidden text, adjustable character spacing and character width

Extended paragraph formats like automatic numbering, bullets, borders, shading, fill patterns, widow/orphan control

Headers and footers, master pages (useful e.g. for watermarks)

Fully-customizable style sheets for character and paragraph formatting

 

Using Images, Drawings etc.:

Insert images in numerous formats (BMP, 2BP, TIFF, PCX, GIF, JPEG, TGA, PNG, PhotoCD, IFF, IMG, PBM, PPM, PGM)

Insert drawings (lines, rectangles, circles etc.)

Text, tables, images etc. can be placed in "frames" – the surrounding body text is automatically wrapped around them

 

Additional Features:

Multi-language spell-checker and hyphenation

     

Spell-checker
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Thesaurus
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Spelling can be checked either manually, interactively (while you type), or automatically (typos are underlined in red)

International dictionaries, hyphenation and thesauri

Spell-checking and hyphenation for: English US, English UK, German, German (reformed), Swiss-German, Swiss-German (reformed), French, French (Canadian), Italian, Spanish, Spanish (Latin American), Portuguese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian

Thesauri (synonyms) for: English UK, English US, German, German (reformed), Swiss-German, Swiss-German (reformed), French, French (Canadian), Italian, Spanish, Spanish (Latin American), Dutch
  

Tables of Content, indices

Footnotes and endnotes

Integrated dBase compatible database (for mail-merging and address lookup)

Documents can be encrypted and protected against reading/changing them

Fully customizable keyboard mapping and control strips

... and many more

 

System Requirements

Any glibc-based x86 Linux with kernel version 2.0 or higher
Also works under FreeBSD 4.7 (with Linux ABI installed)
Also works under NetBSD 1.6 (activate Linux compatibility and load SuSE_base and SuSE_X11)

X Window with any Window Manager

Color depth of 15 bit or higher recommended

Approx. 10 MByte HD space

 

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