Open Source Desktop Operating Systems Text Processing Software

OmegaT is a free and open source multiplatform Computer Assisted Translation tool with fuzzy matching, translation memory, keyword search, glossaries, and translation leveraging into updated projects.

XMLStarlet is a set of command line utilities (tools) to transform, query, validate, and edit XML documents and files using simple set of shell commands in similar way it is done for text files with UNIX grep, sed, awk, diff, patch, join, etc utilities.

Biber is a sophisticated bibliography processing backend for the LaTeX biblatex package. It supports a unsurpassed feature set for automated conformance to complex bibliography style requirements such as labelling, sorting and name handling. It has comprehensive Unicode support.

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

LMG2Shruti is a free non unicode to unicode font converter. It converts the LMG Arun font to Gujarati unicode Shruti font.

gema is a general purpose text processing utility based on the concept of pattern matching. It reads an input file and copies it to an output file transforming the data as specified by the patterns defined by the user. See the "Wiki" tab for further information.

The FreeDOS Edlin project is the standard line editor in the FreeDOS operating system.

RefDB is a reference database and bibliography tool for SGML, XML, and LaTeX documents, sort of a Reference Manager or BibTeX for markup languages. It is portable and known to run on Linux, Free/NetBSD, OSX, Solaris, and Windows/Cygwin.

A lightweight piece of software that you can effortlessly use to create and edit NFO files which you can then later use in distribution.

A translation tools suite for Computer-Aided Translation / Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT). A translation processor with translation memory, machine translation and project support, bitext aligner/converter, TMX validator, and others.

Benkyou Studio is intended to be a One-stop integrated solution for working and learning with languages, For the Learner, it has flashcards,A multi choice Quiz which remembers and adjusts to the words you are struggling with, Speech Synthesis helps you hear the words as you study, you can even export the wordlist to sound files for your portable music player For the Professional, it has unicode lookup and converters, a character map viewer and exporter, a text file converter for converting file formats, Unicode capable Bitmap Font Builder for Game Developers, TextTricks processor for manipulating and altering Text, A MultiCurrency Calculator, allowing you to perform calculations simultaneously in 2 currencies, and a Time planner, which shows the next 24 hrs over the timezones of your choice , with working hours highlighted. The sourcecode will be held on Sourceforge, if you are a general user, please download the latest version from: http://www.benkyoustudio.com/

ECCE is a text editor designed by Hamish Dewar at Edinburgh University in the 1960's, which is still in daily use. Several historical implementations of ECCE exist in various languages. This implementation in portable C is for modern computers.

GitSync is a shell script designed to simplify the usage of the version control system GIT (see www.git-scm.com for more information) by providing a "do everything to sync my repository" command.

dbacl is a general purpose digramic Bayesian text classifier. It can learn text documents you provide, and then compare new input with the learned categories. It can be used for spam filtering, or within your own shell scripts. Sometimes it plays che

The Text Trix editor is an open-source, cross-platform text editor with a mind for user-friendly file and text navigation. See our new GitHub home for the latest and greatest Text Trix development: https://github.com/the4thchild/texttrix

Write and edit your lua scripts in an easy way.

Binary Dealer is a text/binary editor that allows conversion of full text document or string into Binary values. You can edit binary or text file by using the Binary Dealer Editor and save it afterwards.

OOoLatex is no more maintained. Please consider using TexMaths (http://roland65.free.fr/texmaths/) OOoLatex is a set marcos designed to provide latex support into OpenOffice. Complex equations can be inserted as images, the latex code is saved into the image attribute while simpler equations are expanded into symbol characters to be inserted as text.

RSane Publisher allows a team of authors to easily maintain shared documents. Publisher speeds authoring of large structured documents, especially technical, business, and reference materials. Runs on Java, JBoss, and Tomcat.

this is the absolutle simplest text editor possable

xMarkup is a text transformation utility for batch-processing of a set of ANSI/UTF-8 text files. All Win-32 and POSIX/UNIX platforms.

ApexText is a general purpose text editor for developers and non-developers. It supports synatx highlighting for Java, C, C++, Perl, SQL, JSP, HTML etc., tooling for Java. Many UI features are configurable.

This is a program designed for programmers who may have to write code that is almost identical except for a few values that change along the way. Enjoy :)

Boarded is a virtual on-screen keyboard for the X11 window system. It's intended to be used on mobile devices without a hardware keyboard. It allows you to design your own keyboard layouts, specifying key positioning/grouping and setting own colors.

ChaLo is trying to help with annoying mistypes due to wrongly selected keyboard locale. Currently supported laguages (keyboard layouts): Greek-Latin Will be supported soon: Russian-Latin Romanian-Latin A typical usage scenario involves a user writing text of mixed language (eg Greek and English) thus having to switch keyboard layout from time to time. User often forgets to switch from English to Greek but continues writing (often without looking at the screen) only to find out a little later that s/he is mistyping. ChaLo helps to correct the mistyped section quickly and without the need to rewrite the mistyped section.