Re: Emacs as word processor

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 20.11.2013 19:53, schrieb Eli Zaretskii:
> > Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:35:54 -0500
> > From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> >
> >      - awareness of current-column as a float
> >        I started working on this in 2002, but got distracted.
> >        The (small, exploratory) changes were reverted 2011-03-06.
> >
> >      - correspondance between buffer pos and pixel (x,y) coords on screen
> >
> >      - floating (text "flows" around) images, tables, and other "objects"
> >
> >      - automatic pagination
> >
> >      - page-based stats (word-count, etc), margins, "styles"
> >
> > These seem like important features, I agree.
>
> This one is already supported:
>
> >      - correspondance between buffer pos and pixel (x,y) coords on screen
>
> (Unless I misunderstand what is meant by that.)
>
> However, I don't understand why these features are put forward before
> much more basic ones.  As I understand Richard's request, he would
> like to do everything we can do in Texinfo, but with WYSIWYG display,
> have a capability to export that in several formats, and be able to
> print it from Emacs.  Why not start with these modest features?

It's far from being modest. Seems Richard reached the point of users-interest, 
where the most popular editor started in 1981.
Please note: saying "most popular", not best. However, there was always a point 
noticing that, brought here forward in vain several times.

Also don't think Emacs may change it's path that easily: it would mean to turn 
from producer domination into a kind of consumer market.
AFAIS there is no infrastructure for this.