Open Source Text Processing Software

Scribus is an Open Source program that brings professional page layout to Linux, BSD UNIX, Solaris, OpenIndiana, GNU/Hurd, Mac OS X, OS/2 Warp 4, eComStation, and Windows desktops with a combination of press-ready output and new approaches to page design. Underneath a modern and user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as color separations, CMYK and spot colors, ICC color management, and versatile PDF creation.

Babeldoc is integration tool that can plumb together data flows. It is completely configurable and scriptable. It is heavily XML biased but not exclusively so.

Text search and replace. Scripting (small tool programs). CGI scripts. Execution of external programs (incl. I/O redirection). Garbage Collection. Extendended Booch Components. CD-Recorder

Diff-ext is an extension for filemanagers such as Windows Explorer and Nautilus that allows to launch diff/merge tools on selected files.

AurigaDoc is a java-xml based documentation tool for writing documents in xml format and converting them to other formats like HTML, DHTML, PDF, PostScript, Formating object(FO), RTF, Java Help, HTML Help, Oracle Help, etc. AurigaDoc is not an xml editor

Flat File Tool is a set of Perl scripts which allows the display of flat files according to a user specified record length. Supporting descriptive headers of the data, horizontal and vertical scrolling, and color coding of the various fields.

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

gazebo n : a small roofed structure affording shade and rest. Also an open framework for playing and assisting at playing most any OGL d20/DND game in the Gnome 2 environment.

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.

JResEditor eases the editing of java resource files. It provides validation and allows easy comparison of multiple resource files. The GUI allows easy navigation to any key and provides wizards to create keys and new resource files.

LaTeX2HTML-gui is a graphical user interface for LaTeX2HTML. You can set about 100 parameters of LaTeX2HTML in graphic dialogs instead of typing a config file. LaTeX2HTML offers the descriptions of all parameters without searching the documentation.

The tool FTS2DB is a translator from FTS (pure text with some structuring, and format tags, see bellow) text format to Docbook (SGML/XML) documents. It was created to provide an easy way to those users who (temporally) doesn't have a Docbook text forma

A UNIX Shell script wrapper for the VI editor. It is recommended VIB be used as an alias for the VI editor. VIB creates backups of any files edited using VI to a specified location while maintaining X backup revisions, and keeping a revision history of who made changes and when to a master log. VIB is Ideal in environments where you have multiple users logging into a UNIX system and you wish to keep track of whom is modifying files. For example, VIB could be 'aliased' in all new user shell accounts, so that when they edit a file using "vi", a log entry will be generated, and a backup copy of the file with their username will also be notated. The goal of VIB is to assist with tracking who modified what file, when on a UNIX/Linux systsm.

The Vocatout is a good program to learn vocabulary, you can use it to learn all the languages in the whole world. You can also learn capitals, search for voc-files, create voc-files, share your files, scan vocabulary, take a look at your diary, Download

It's a tools generating some graphics interfaces for applications in Java language. It's to gain a lot of time while building some windows. The Swings classes are very difficult to use! (especially the Layouts) We describe the windows content in XML!

Command line XML parser using "expat" libraries allowing you to on the fly extract / add / modify / delete / split / format / unformat / count tag value, name and attributes. Usefull for shell scripting on UNIX or Linux based systems.

Latexss is a program that can transform a text file with a very minimal style syntax into a self contained LaTeX spreadsheet powered by the fp package. A graphical front-end (klatexss) is provided to generate both the text and the LaTeX file.

xSiteable is a fully relational website compiler written entirely in XSLT, using topic maps (using XTM directly) as the backbone information technology, bundled with the fast Sablotron XSLT parser, a GUI admin tool and other nifty features. Watch this sp