Open Source Linux Text Editors

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.

A Swiss Army Knife GUI application for PDF documents: combine, split, rotate, reorder (n-up, booklet), watermark, edit bookmarks/fileinfo/pagetransition, compress, encrypt, decrypt, sign, repair, edit attachments and more.

Canorus is a free cross-platform music score editor. It supports an unlimited number and length of staffs, polyphony, a MIDI playback of notes, chord markings, lyrics, import/export filters to formats like MIDI, MusicXML, ABC Music, MusiXTeX and LilyPond

LaTeX-Mk is a collection of makefile fragments for managing small to large LaTeX based documentation projects. The idea is that especially large documents, there may be many many steps required to typeset the document (export modified figures to postscr

Hyperlatex allows the development of documents that are to be distributed either as printed matter or as HTML. It is not a general-purpose translator of LaTeX files into HTML, but allows writers to write for both media simultaneously.

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

MediaWiki To LaTeX converts MediaWiki markup to LaTeX and generates a PDF. So it provides an export from MediaWiki to LaTeX. It works with any project running MediaWiki, especially Wikipedia and Wikibooks.

CHORD5 is a ChordPro editor and renderer, useful for formatting and printing song sheets ("lead sheets"). This version of the CHORD program (based on CHORD4) has been modified to add functionality that enables it to cooperate with the ChordSmith program (available at https://sourceforge.net/projects/chordsmith/). This modified version has been renamed to CHORD5. Although it is revised to work with ChordSmith, it also works well as a standalone program. NOTE: If you have ChordSmith, you already have CHORD5. If you don't have ChordSmith, you should get it. CHORD5's MacOS interface has also been standardized to use the Command key instead of Ctrl, as well as moving the About and Quit menu selections to the standard MacOS locations on the screen menu bar. The help docs have been updated and some bugs eliminated. The original CHORD4 distribution is available from https://sourceforge.net/projects/chord4/

The algorithms package is aimed at (flexibly) typesetting pseudo-code in LaTeX documents (with the high typographical quality provided by the TeX engine).

OpenReport is a fast, flexible and complete open source solution for rendering professionnal documents. It is a set of two embedded or standalone components; Tiny RML2PDF (a better alternative to XSL:FO) and the open report server.

This project aims to develop means for advanced Arabic typesetting, including OpenType fonts and a text layout engine.

aaid (short for Assignment Aid) is a template tool designed with school (esp. high school & college) assignments in mind. It\'s design is closely wrapped in HTML, allowing you freedom in your templates, while also not requiring you to type numerous tags.

CPP2RTF: generates listings of C++ code in RTF format, using different fonts and typefaces to highlight syntax for printing on a B&W printer. Pre-compiled binaries for both Windows and Cygwin are provided.

ClassMailMerge is a .NET Class for sending strings to a microsoft office word template easily! It's useful for office letters that need database fields.

"Typsättning av text och matematiska formler med hälp av LaTeX, en handledning för handfallna" is a Swedish introduction to the typesetting system LaTeX. Suitable for Ph.D. and undergraduate students. It is released under the GNU FDL.

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.

This Project supports Japanese supplements and patches for Apache FOP.

Java based screenplay (movie script) editor and colaboration tool with a graphical interface (WYSIWYG) to create and/or edit scripts. Export in XML, PDF, XHTML and other formats. En español.

JCopist is a template-based document generation server based on OpenOffice.org. Its templates are regular OpenDocuments enhanced with the FreeMarker scripting language. A wide range of formats are available, eg. : ODT, PDF, RTF, HTML, MS Word, MS Excel

JCurricula is a web-application designed to build a professional and good-looking Curriculum Vitae. jCurricula will create a cv in PDF format, ready to be printed or viewed. JCurricula is a java servlet.

Java classes that enable definition of new Charsets based on other existing Charsets, without additional programming. Includes a character set with Kamenik encoding.

Legba will be a set of tools designed to publish one content file (in XML) on many media such as websites, CD-Rom or paper.

Linotypex is a web platform to easily convert any text (copied from a document, a web page or even composed by the user...) to LaTeX and then to PDF if needed. Output is as beautiful as any LaTeX document.

A word processing program with a searchable interface. Rather than blundering through menus and dialogs, commands are issued by entering them into a search bar. An optional "Basic Bar" is available with common functions such as bolding.

Lout is a batch document formatter. It reads a high-level description of a document similar in style to LaTeX and produces a PostScript file which can be printed on most laser printers. Plain text and PDF output are also available.