Re: Emacs as word processor

[Lennart Borgman]

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> I guess you've never used any of the *Office word processors, because
> they allow this quite easily: there's a font selection combo on the
> tool bar, and a size selection combo right next to it.  You mark the
> text, then select any font and/or any size, and the marked text
> acquires those attributes.  There are also tool-bar button to
> gradually increase/decrease the size of the selected text.

I use to help friends sometimes who have done exactly that when they
are writing a thesis. A big trouble. Of course they owe me a lot after
such help. ;-)