Tiny Core Linux
Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Talk => Extension requests => Topic started by: daniel l. on December 12, 2018, 01:49:03 AM
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There's an extra package for Wordgrinder that allows graphical formatting when running within X. Bold, Italics and Underlines are graphically displayed instead of via color-coding.
Given Abiword's glitchiness and the weight of Libreoffice, it would be nice to have such a light Word Processor working at full capacity on Tiny Core.
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What's the name of this extra package and where do you get it from?
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Hi daniel l.
I think what you are looking for is the xwordgrinder executable which is already included in wordgrinder.tcz. You will need
to install libXft.tcz first.
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The extra package is called "wordgrinder-x11". It's available in the Debian repos: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/wordgrinder-x11
I tried it with libXft and nothing happened. This is how it's supposed to look:
(https://sites.google.com/site/texteditors/Home/files/WordGrinder_screenshot.jpg)
Notice how the text, when formatted, actually displays the formatting?
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Hi daniel l.
I tried it with libXft and nothing happened.
Yes, but did you try it by executing wordgrinder or xwordgrinder ?
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Amazingly, that does work. Though it looks a little weird -- the ncurses UI is kinda wonky.
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Hi daniel l.
According to Debian that's the right program:
File list of package wordgrinder-x11 in stretch of architecture i386
/usr/bin/xwordgrinder
/usr/share/doc/wordgrinder-x11/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/wordgrinder-x11/copyright
/usr/share/man/man1/xwordgrinder.1.gz
When you installed libXft.tcz , did you use the Apps utility or tce-load so that all the dependencies would also be installed?
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I usually just use tce-load. Graphical app stores are a little slow for me.
I've noticed that wordgrinder and some other terminal apps, such as GNU Screen, don't display properly on Tiny Core. Is it a dependency issue? Or something to do with the kernel?