Paige - a free cross-platform RichEdit toolkit/library with 800 pages of docs

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@SamuraiCrow

This would satisfy the requirements of my first post on this forum . I need to look into this farther.

Going by what you say, yes, it would. @PulkoMandy actually raises a very important point.

@PulkoMandy

Well, there are two parts to a word processor. One is managing the document model (with all auto-updating and complex layouting), and the other is getting it shown on screen.

The text view is only a view, so it only handles the latter. To do this, it needs a rather low-level view of the things to render. It is up to the word processor application to process your document and provide the view with some pre-layouted rendering instructions.

If the text view design starts with “HTML” or “PDF”, I think things have already gone wrong. What we need is a view with an API to drive it. Parsing and rendering specific document formats is not something to be handled on that side, but on the side of applications wanting to use the view.

This is exactly what Paige provides, in a much more advanced sort of way. If you’re writing a word processor, what format it uses and what features it has are entirely up to you. What Paige gives you is the ability to shift text around and to display it in a pretty fashion; it doesn’t give a $#!+ about whether it’s working with a Markdown, HTML, LaTeX, or ODT file—the plasterwork is your responsibility, Paige just provides the plumbing.

I’ll also invite the curious to Jim (“admin”) Rea’s comment on the ProVUE forums, for a little bit of extra history: More Word Processor SO uses - #6 by admin - Panorama X - Panorama Discussion Forum