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	What writers tools are available?

More specifically I'm looking for tools such as:
	
	
	- Thesaurus
	- Dictionary
	- Style checkers
	- Spell checkers
	- Document management
	(- Hypertext/Hypermedia)

Some comments:
 Thesaurus:	We've found
			Roget's Interactive Thesaurus 
		 	(c) 1985 Rite Software Development
		which seems good ... only one could wish 
		for an X interface. (We found it by leafing
		through Sun Catalyst.)
		Are there any more products, or public domain
		offerings?
 Dictionary:	Basically we don't have any. I've seen postings
		on related news groups where people have been looking
		for Webster's 7th Collegiate Dictionary. Apparently this is 
		and old version residing at SRI, Boston University etc.
		Being left at these sites after some research project 
		ended. Does anyone know if this is available as
		product from Merriam-Webster or anyone else?
		
		There is also Oxford English Dictionary (OED) on 
		the NeXT, but is this available for other platforms?
		(I'm thinking of Sun's ... )

Style checkers: What I mean is the kind that analyses your text 
		and computes some metric information such as average
		sentence length, average word length and out of these
		classifies the text. (This is done against some set 
		of reference texts)
		I haven't seen anything like this in the Unix domain
		.... anybody else?

Spell checkers:	We're basically using Unix spell (and delatex) with only 
		25 000 words. Anything better would be welcome.

Document manag: I'm not shure what I mean ... what is available?

Hypertext/...:  I'm aware of the hypertext facilities in xtex. I also 
		read about a system called LACE in TUGboat, but the author
		hasn't responded. Anybody?

We also have The Publisher which actually solves many of these problems, 
but there are some really nagging properties with this system ... e.g.
you couldn't have a theorem environment since all environments in Publisher
has to be hierarchically ordered ... (yuck). (The editor is also comparatively
weak compared to Gnu Emacs ... ).

I know this is a long posting, but I (we) would really like to have a good set
of tools ... a writers (schoolars) work station ;-)



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