Jarte?

[terrie]

Woody...

Just for you, now that I've actually read your initial post--see my last reply to Steve...'-}}--I decided to do a bit a playing in Jarte...



I have been working on typing up my notes on installing Windows 8.1 and I'm using WordPerfect to do that as I normally do. I decided copy the first page of my notes from WordPerfect into Jarte just to see how it handled it and to see what level of formatting it kept.


I'm rather impressed as the copy has all of my formatting intact--bold, italic, centering, tabbing, etc.. I also took a closer look at all the different Menu items/choices which I'd never paid much attention to and there is a wealth of formatting options.


I think it well might do for word processing.






Terrie

[Andrew B.]

I'm waiting for PSPad to be able to operate on my high resolution screen. Onw of my fav features is the ability to return search results as a list.

[Steve Rindsberg]

Originally Posted by terrie

Well...duh!!!!


I completely missed that! I just saw "Jarte" and "anyone use" and went from there...'-}}




>>then, you probably wouldn't like it now either

What I remember is that Notepad++ was more than I wanted/needed. It did all sorts of nifty things but, I didn't need the nifty...just the basic and the nifty got in the way of the basic. Jarte did the basic things I've needed nicely, cleanly--you know, copy/paste text, a bit of formatting here and there, a number of different file types available for opening/saving (I use it for rtf's which I use for a few special files saved as different file types to make sure I can always access the data), etc..



I think of Jarte as a more sophisticated Microsoft NotePad without the annoyance of that !*(#$!&* ribbon in WordPad...'-}}



Terrie

Gotcha. Glad we got THAT cleared up. ;-)

Notepad++ is targeted less at writers than it is at developers, really. It's got all kinds of useful smarts if you're coding in pretty much any computer language, html, css and the like. And with a couple of plug-ins, it's a great tool for editing XML. Which, if you don't need to edit XML, is a giant yawn, right? ;-)

[woody649]

Since I installed Jarte (Jarte Plus 6.2, I'll have you know ), I'll keep it on my system, at least for now. The 6.2 version offers three different configurations for the menu -- two of which aren't the dreaded ribbon, but both of which are dreadfully modern and IMHO sort of comic-book-like. The third (the basic option) is -- TADA, drumroll! -- an actual, textual menu bar. This leads me to suspect that Jarte may be built on the Windows XP iteration of WordPad, since that's the way I remember the menuy being under XP.

Unfortunately, I no longer have anything running XP, so I can't confirm that.

[woody649]

It appears I was wrong (again). I found a screen shot of Wordpad for XP. It has a toolbar for quickly selecting things like justification, etc.



Jarte doesn't have that. Its Classic interface is even more Spartan that that of the old Wordpad.



I much prefer the old Wordpad, over both the new Wordpad and over Jarte. I wonder if there's a way to get the old Wordpad to run under Windows 10?

FWIW, I also discovered that Jarte won't open .DOCX files unless you have the Windows Compatibility Pack installed. Which this computer does, since I still have Office 2003 installed -- and Jarte didn't see it. That may be because I installed Jarte years after installing the compatibility pack.

[woody649]

Well, that was easy.

I was able to download a .ZIP file with Wordpad for XP and a couple of supporting files. Once I had extracted the files, I just double-clicked on wordpad.exe and off we went.

I have no idea what I might ever use it for, but I'm happy to have it.

[terrie]

steve: Notepad++ is targeted less at writers than it is at developers, really.

Yes...and I wasn't (at that point) doing any of those things...'-}}



Terrie