> our GHz computers, we were doing previously with old MHz > I've long observed that almost everything we are doing with (Note: dosemu2 doesn't require virtual 8086 mode, so it works fine on x86-64) You could write it in some form of markup, html, TeX, markdown, whatever, but if I'm just trying to format a document I prefer a word processor. You could use a text editor, but it's not ideal for layout because it doesn't understand things like proportional font geometries - you need that to know how lines/glyphs will fit on the physical page when it's printed. I know about wordgrinder but it's very very basic. I'm not aware of any other full-featured modern word processor that can run in an xterm. It can import TTF fonts and print to PostScript, which I just pipe into ps2pdf and then handle on the host. I find this technically impressive and makes a lot of old DOS software indistinguishable from native linux software stdin/stdout, parameters, host filesystem access, etc all work transparently. It works beautifully under dosemu2, which has a terminal mode that can translate various VGA modes into S-Lang calls (S-Lang is like ncurses, so no X11 required). I only use it for writing letters and so on, nothing too serious, but I prefer to stay in the terminal if I can. (I have Word 2003 and it can open WordPerfect 5.x and 6.x documents though some more esoteric features are not supported.I use WordPerfect 6.2 for DOS, not for any nostalgia or legacy reasons, just because it's a full-featured and highly configurable word processor that I can use in a terminal. However, I don’t know if the footnotes will convert over as desired, although conversion of footnotes is supported. The other thing you might try is to compose your paper in WordPerect, then when you’re done, open it in Word and save in Word format. But if you force the reference to the top of the following page (such as with a manual page break) then you end up with white space at the bottom of the original page. If a reference is near the bottom of the page, then adding the footnote to the bottom would bump the reference to the next page. However, **Realit圜huck **describes something that would seem like a catch-22 for any program. I have not had this problem with Word, but I usually use end notes rather than footnotes. It handles big footnotes and keeping them with the text just fine… Well, I’ve not run into this problem with WordPerfect, which I normally use for big papers.
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