Open Source Linux Text Processing Software

PTools is a set of useful tools written in Pascal. It includes: scientific calculator, archiver, text editor, remote adminitration and more. It is designed to be portable across operating systems, specially Java-based mobiles, Windows and Unixes.

Track changes in LaTeX documents. The goal is to provide editing facilities as known from word processors like Microsoft Word or OpenOffice Writer for LaTeX. The project comprises a LaTeX package and additional software to accept/reject changes etc.

Why is it quicker to express simple equations in plaintext that it is to write the equivalent LaTeX? Easylatex is a preprocessor to make writing LaTeX much quicker. Project activity mode (http://bayleshanks.com/pamv1 ): sporadic

FOray is an open-source XSL-FO publishing system that is suitable for converting XML content into PDF and other document formats. Although not yet fully conformant with the XSL-FO standard, it is very useful for many applications.

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A collection of writing tools (wenju in Chinese pinyin) such as input method, text file formatter, etc. All the tools are based on Unicode.

The EpiDoc Collaborative is developing specifications and tools for standards-based, digital publication and interchange of scholarly and educational editions of documentary and literary texts like inscriptions and papyri. The link below will take you to the EpiDoc home page on this site.

General information, and a pack of tools for manipulating the Persian (Farsi) language and script, on different platforms and operating systems.

J2ME Memopad is a simple MIDP application designed to allow storage and retrieval of notes. It will have the ability to search and generate a list of results, as well as categorize your memos. The basic design of the memopad is similar to the Palm.

The Writers Forge is a fiction authoring suite, an IDE for writers. The tool suite will provide integrated support for writing screenplays and prose, and developing plot and character. The backend will support many target formats, including XML and PDF.

pdfreflow is a command line utility that operates on the output of the poppler utility called pdftohtml. pdfreflow reflows the texts into paragraphs, while at the same time removing hyphenation and page numbers, headers and footers.

CloudBeamer is a web-application useful for creating slides with the beamer package of LaTeX. Allows you to compile your presentations online, without installing anything.

Devchekio is a GTK+ 2 FTP check in/out code editor. It was inspired by the use of DreamWeaver's system to access files like a library system.

This is an Emacs-Lisp package that enables easy editting and maintenance of DocBook XML files within GNU Emacs.

SCons is a make replacement providing a range of enhanced features such as automated dependency generation and built in compilation cache support. SCons rule sets are Python scripts so as well as the features it provides itself SCons allows you to use the full power of Python to control compilation. This is a SCons extension (tool) which enables usage of the dvipdfm program to convert dvi files to pdf.

GNOME Clipboard Manager is an environment made for managing your clipboards. It will automatically fetch new clipboards, and will push all the formats of that clipboard to a shelf

Indexmeister reads a variety of formats (.tex, .docx, .epub, and others) and suggests keywords for indexing. The included program Imbrowse provides a semi-automatic interface to rapidly add index tags to multi-file latex documents.

Medit is a text editor which supports many languages specially the arabic language

This is a toolkit for creating custom desktop Content Management Systems. Those systems are meant to run locally not requiring to execute scripts on the server side. Customized for specific document structure they should be maximally easy to use by end us

QTide is a QT-based Textditor with some nice features: Simple installationscript, Tabbed editor window to allow simultaneous editing of multiple files, Allows integration of own tools/programs, extendable syntaxhighlighting.

User friendly Subtitles Editor/Translator. Can open, convert, modify and save subtitle files in Subrip(.srt), MicroDVD(.sub) and Subviewer format. It has built-in translator for quick translation. Can change FPS, charset (Unicode, UTF8), and much more...

Convert Chinese Simplified(GB2312) to Chinese Traditional(Big5).It can be used in HTML,txt and so on .It is easy to convert a site once.

Splitting an XML file into components of a pure TextArray and the XML markup information allows to examine the text further with simple PCRE matching and easy memorization of results in the XML tree, done here on the basis of glib2 and libpcre.

<i>dblup</i> is a tool to output LaTeX from DocBook using Perl.

Mamba is a extensible xml templates preprocessor wrote in Python. Using it, you can rapidly develop powerful applications ready to integrate with the internet. It can be used to work as a generic CGI program or for generate content.