Lighter weight word processor than LibreOffice?

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Thanks Arthur for the detailed insite to your life.

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That bit is fulfilled by markdown, because the forum editor uses markdown
but
you want LO compatability ( via .odt) as well
That is difficult.
and
you dont want styles ( formatting ).
I will have another think about this…

I can see two possibilities

  • Abiword is lighter than LO , it can export .odt files, but it still has styles. I dont know if you can lock it into one style for everything. Abiword would be a step in the right direction, but probably not light enough to be your ideal tool.
    I tried Abiword…49Mb on the disk… It definitely exports to .odt and about 20 other formats.
  • A combination of markdown and pandoc would fit your requirements. Downside is you have to learn markdown layout commands. You can write markdown with any text editor, or you can use one of the specialist markdown editors which provide a dual view of you document… as typed and as rendered . Pandoc can convert files to and from .odt.
  • Joplin + pandoc would work. Joplin has a markdown plugin. Joplin is definitely light.
  • Cherrytree + pandoc would also work. Export in Cherrytree to HTML , ten convert HTML to .odt with pandoc.
  • FocusWriter used .odt files by default

None of these is the perfect answer.

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If you can wait for me, I could try something.

My experience is that Lazarus creates fast and light executable for Linux.
So properly using/combining those Delhpi/Lazarus snippets, chances are I could create a very light markdown editor. (Not sure, say about 95%…)
Should I get to it?
(But first I need some time to finish current jobs with a deadline)

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I know it is for @ex-Gooserider , not for me, but I really like that approach.

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Something that I’ve become accustomed to is that nowadays I don’t really care about the “rendered alongside view” because I’ve written so much markdown that just looking at the syntax is enough for me to understand the information hierarchy of a document.

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Me too. I just write it in vi , then view the final draft with the dual viewer.
The markdown viewer I now like best is keenwrite

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@kovacslt said:

My experience is that Lazarus creates fast and light executable for Linux.
So properly using/combining those Delhpi/Lazarus snippets, chances are I could create a very light markdown editor. (Not sure, say about 95%…)
Should I get to it?
(But first I need some time to finish current jobs with a deadline)

I should have gotten back on this sooner…

The problem with it if I understand what you are proposing is that it still ends up as ‘markdown’ - not “What you see / type is what you get” and not as an Open Office *.odt document…

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