List of applications/Documents

Documents

Office suites

• Calligra — Actively developed fork of KOffice, the KDE office suite. It offers most of the features of OpenOffice while also having versions for smartphones (Calligra Mobile) and tablets (Calligra Active).

http://www.calligra-suite.org/ || calligra

• Kingsoft Office — Propietary office productivity suite, also named WPS.

http://www.kingsoftstore.com/ || kingsoft-office^AUR

• LibreOffice — More actively developed fork of OpenOffice.

https://www.libreoffice.org/ || libreoffice

• OpenOffice — Open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more, under the Apache Licence.

http://www.openoffice.org/ || openoffice-base-bin^AUR

• Siag Office — Extremely lightweight office suite that provides a word processor, spreadsheet, text editor, file manager and previewer.

http://siag.nu/ || siag-office^AUR

Word processors

• Abiword — Full-featured word processor.

http://www.abisource.com/ || abiword

• Abiword Minimal — Minimal version of Abiword.

http://www.abisource.com/ || abiword-minimal^AUR

• BlueGriffon — WYSIWYG content editor for the World Wide Web.

http://www.bluegriffon.com/ || bluegriffon^AUR

• Calligra Words — Powerful word processor included in the Calligra Suite.

http://www.calligra.org/words/ || calligra-words

• gLabels — program for creating labels and business cards.

http://glabels.org/ || glabels

• LibreOffice Writer — Full-featured word processor included in the LibreOffice suite.

https://www.libreoffice.org/ || libreoffice-writer

• Markdown — Text-to-HTML conversion tool that allows you to write using a simple plain text format.

http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown || markdown

• OpenOffice Writer — Full-featured word processor included in the OpenOffice suite.

http://www.openoffice.org/ || openoffice-base-bin^AUR

• Pandoc — Swiss-army knife for converting one markup format into another (supports Markdown).

http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc || haskell-pandoc^AUR

• Pathetic Writer — X-based rich text processor included in Siag Office.

http://siag.nu/pw/ || siag-office^AUR

• Scribus — Desktop publishing program.

http://www.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus || scribus

• Ted — Easy to use GTK+-based rich text processor (with footnote support).

http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/ || ted^AUR

• txt2tags — Dead-simple, KISS-compliant lightweight, human-readable markup language to produce rich format content out of plain text files.

http://txt2tags.sourceforge.net || txt2tags

Spreadsheets

• Calligra Sheets — Powerful spreadsheet application included in the Calligra Suite

http://www.calligra.org/sheets/ || calligra-sheets

• Gnumeric — Spreadsheet program that is part of the GNOME desktop.

http://projects.gnome.org/gnumeric/ || gnumeric

• LibreOffice Calc — Full-featured spreadsheet application included in the LibreOffice suite.

https://www.libreoffice.org/features/calc/ || libreoffice-calc

• OpenOffice Calc — Full-featured spreadsheet application included in the OpenOffice suite.

http://openoffice.org/product/calc || openoffice-base-bin^AUR

• Siag — Spreadsheet application based on the X Window System and the Scheme programming language included in Siag Office.

http://siag.nu/siag/ || siag-office^AUR

Scientific Documents

With LaTeX, creation of any scientific document, article, journal, etc. is made commonplace.

• AUCTeX — Extensible package for writing and formatting TeX files in Emacs.

https://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/ || auctex

• Gummi — Lightweight TeX/LaTeX GTK+-based editor.

http://dev.midnightcoding.org/projects/gummi || gummi

• Kile — User-friendly TeX/LaTeX editor for the KDE desktop with many features.

http://kile.sourceforge.net/ || kile

• LyX — Document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents (WYSIWYM) and not simply their appearance (WYSIWYG).

http://www.lyx.org/ || lyx

• TeXmacs — WYSIWYW editing platform with special features for scientists.

http://www.texmacs.org/ || texmacs

• Texmaker — Cross-platform, light and easy-to-use LaTeX IDE.

http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/index.html || texmaker

• Winefish — Editor for experienced LaTeX users with support for UTF-8, syntax highlight, auto-completion and auto-text.

http://winefish.berlios.de/ || winefish^AUR

Text editors

Console

• e3 — Tiny editor without dependencies, written in assembly.

http://sites.google.com/site/e3editor/ || e3

• dex — Small and easy to use text editor with support for ctags and parsing compiler errors.

https://github.com/tihirvon/dex || dex-editor-git^AUR

• Emacs-nox — The extensible, customizable, self-documenting real-time display editor, without X11 support.

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html || emacs-nox

• JED — Text editor that makes extensive use of the S-Lang library. Includes a console version (jed) and an X-window version (xjed).

http://jedsoft.org/jed/ || jed^AUR

• Joe (Joe's Own Editor) — Terminal-based text editor designed to be easy to use.

http://joe-editor.sourceforge.net/ || joe

• mcedit — Useful text editor that comes with Midnight Commander file manager.

http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/ || mc

• MicroEmacs — Ncurses-based text editor. Includes a console version (me -n) and an X-window version (me).

http://www.jasspa.com/ || jasspa-me^AUR

• mg — Small, fast, and portable Emacs-compatible editor.

http://homepage.boetes.org/software/mg || mg

• Nano — Console text editor based on pico with on-screen key bindings help.

http://nano-editor.org/ || nano

• Zile — A lightweight Emacs clone.

https://gnu.org/s/zile/ || zile

Vi text editors

• Vi — The original ex/vi text editor.

http://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/ || vi

• Vim (Vi IMproved) — Advanced text editor that seeks to provide the power of the de-facto Unix editor 'vi', with a more complete feature set.

http://www.vim.org/ || vim

Graphical

• Acme — Minimalist and flexible programming environment developed by Rob Pike for the Plan 9 operating system.

http://acme.cat-v.org || plan9port

• Beaver — A GTK+ editor designed to be modular, lightweight and stylish.

http://beaver-editor.sourceforge.net/ || beaver

• Emendo — Simple Gtk+3 text editor with syntax highlighting written in Vala

https://bitbucket.org/simargl/emendo || emendo^AUR

• Edile — PyGTK code and scripting editor implemented in one file.

https://code.google.com/p/edile/ || edile^AUR

• Gedit — GTK+ editor for the GNOME desktop with syntax highlighting, automatic indentation, matching brackets, etc., and a number of add-ons to increase functionality.

http://projects.gnome.org/gedit/ || gedit

• GNU Emacs — Somewhat intimidating but famously extensible text editor with hundreds of tricks and add-ons.

https://gnu.org/s/emacs || emacs

• gVim — Graphical interface for Vim.

http://vim.org/ || gvim

• Jedit — Text editor for programmers, written in Java.

http://www.jedit.org/ || jedit

• JuffEd — Simple tabbed text editor with syntax highlighting, written in Qt.

http://juffed.com/en/index.html || juffed^AUR

• Kate — Full-featured programmer's editor for the KDE desktop with MDI and a filesystem browser.

http://kate-editor.org/ || kdesdk-kate

• KWrite — Lightweight text editor for the KDE desktop that uses the same editor widget as Kate.

http://kde.org/applications/utilities/kwrite/ || kdebase-kwrite

• Leafpad — Notepad clone for GTK+ that emphasizes simplicity.

http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/ || leafpad

• Mate-text-editor — A powerful text editor for MATE.

http://mate-desktop.org || mate-text-editor

• Medit — Programming and around-programming text editor.

http://mooedit.sourceforge.net/ || medit

• Mousepad — Fast text editor for the Xfce Desktop Environment.

http://www.xfce.org/ || mousepad

• Nedit — Text editor for the lesstif environment.

http://www.nedit.org/ || nedit

• PyRoom — Great distractionless PyGTK text editor, a clone of the infamous WriteRoom.

http://pyroom.org/ || pyroom^AUR

• QSciTE — Qt clone of the SciTE text and code editor.

http://code.google.com/p/qscite/ || qscite^AUR

• QXmlEdit — Simple Qt XML editor and XSD viewer.

http://code.google.com/p/qxmledit/ || qxmledit^AUR

• Sam — Minimalist text editor with a graphical user interface, a very powerful command language and remote editing capabilities, developed by Rob Pike.

http://sam.cat-v.org || plan9port or 9base

• SciTE — Generally useful editor with facilities for building and running programs.

http://scintilla.org/SciTE.html || scite

• Scribes — An ultra minimalist text editor that combines simplicity with power.

http://scribes.sourceforge.net || scribes

• Sublime Text 2 — Closed-source C++ and Python-based editor with many advanced features and plugins while staying lightweight and pretty.

http://sublimetext.com || sublime-text^AUR

• Tea — Qt-based feature rich text editor.

http://tea-editor.sourceforge.net/ || tea

Collaborative text editors

• Gobby — Collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat.

http://gobby.0x539.de || gobby

Document Readers

PDF

Console

• fbdjvu — DjVu viewer similar for fbpdf

http://repo.or.cz/w/fbpdf.git || not packaged? search in AUR

• fbpdf — Small framebuffer PDF viewer based off of MuPDF, with Vim keybindings and written in C

http://repo.or.cz/w/fbpdf.git || fbpdf-git^AUR

• jfbview — Framebuffer PDF and image viewer. Features include Vim-like controls, zoom-to-fit, a TOC (outline) view, fast multi-threaded rendering and asynchronous pre-caching

http://cjix.info/blog/jfbview/ || jfbview^AUR

Graphical

• apvlv — Lightweight PDF/DjVu/UMD/TXT viewer with Vim keybindings.

http://naihe2010.github.com/apvlv/ || apvlv

• Chrome — Web browser with a built-in PDF viewer.

http://www.google.com/chrome || google-chrome^AUR

• ePDFView — Free lightweight PDF document viewer using the Poppler and GTK+ libraries. Development stopped.

http://freecode.com/projects/epdfview || epdfview

• Evince — Document viewer for multiple document formats. Supports PDF, PostScript, DjVu, TIFF and DVI.

http://projects.gnome.org/evince/ || evince

• Firefox — Open source web browser with a built-in PDF viewer.

http://www.mozilla.org/firefox || firefox

• Foxit Reader — Small, fast (compared to Acrobat) PDF viewer. (closed source)

http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/desklinux/ || foxitreader^AUR

• llpp — Very fast PDF reader based off of MuPDF, that supports continuous page scrolling, bookmarking, and text search through the whole document.

http://repo.or.cz/w/llpp.git || llpp-git^AUR

• MuPDF — Very fast PDF and XPS viewer and toolkit written in portable C. Features CJK font support.

http://mupdf.com || mupdf

• Okular — Very powerful viewer for KDE.

http://okular.kde.org/ || kdegraphics-okular

• qpdfview — Tabbed PDF viewer using the Poppler and Qt libraries.

https://launchpad.net/qpdfview || qpdfview^AUR

• Xournal — Pdf viewer/note taking application.

http://xournal.sourceforge.net/ || xournal

• Xpdf — Viewer that can decode LZW and read encrypted PDFs.

http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/ || xpdf^AUR

• zathura — Highly customizable and functional PDF/DjVu/PostScript/ComicBook viewer (plugin based).

http://pwmt.org/projects/zathura/ || zathura

Terminal pagers

• more — A simple and feature-light pager. It is a part of the util-linux package.
• less — A program similar to more, but with support for both forward and backward scrolling, as well as partial loading of files.

http://www.gnu.org/software/less || less

• less-mouse — less with mouse scrolling support. It is present in the AUR as less-mouse^AUR.
• most — A pager with support for multiple windows, left and right scrolling, and built-in colour support

http://www.jedsoft.org/most/ || most

• mcview — A pager with mouse and colour support. It is bundled with midnight commander.

http://www.midnight-commander.org || mc

• vimpager — A script that turns vim into a pager. As a result, you get various vim features such as colour schemes, mouse support, split screens, etc.

https://github.com/rkitover/vimpager || vimpager

CHM

• ChmSee — CHM viewer based on xulrunner.

https://code.google.com/p/chmsee/ || chmsee

• Kchmviewer — Qt-based CHM viewer that uses chmlib and borrows some ideas from xchm. It does not depend on KDE, but it can be compiled to integrate with it.

http://www.ulduzsoft.com/kchmviewer/ || kchmviewer

• xCHM — Lightweight CHM viewer, based on chmlib.

http://xchm.sf.net/ || xchm

Note Taking Organizers

Console

• hnb (hierarchical notebook) — Program to organize many kinds of data (addresses, to-do lists, ideas, book reviews, etc.) in one place using the XML format.

http://hnb.sourceforge.net/ || hnb^AUR

• pynote — Manage notes on the commandline. Stores data in human readable JSON files; provides version control.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pynote || pynote^AUR

Graphical

• BasKet — Application for organizing, sharing, and taking notes. It can manage various types of information such as to-do lists, links, pictures, and other types, similar to a scrapbook.

http://basket.kde.org/ || basket

• Cherrytree — Hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in a single xml or sqlite file.

http://giuspen.com/cherrytree/ || cherrytree

• Gnote — Experimental port of Tomboy to C++.

http://live.gnome.org/Gnote || gnote

• KeepNote — Cross-platform GTK+ note-taking application with rich text formatting.

http://keepnote.org || keepnote

• KJots — Small program which is handy for keeping and organizing miscellaneous notes, part of kdepim.

http://www.kde.org/applications/utilities/kjots/ || kdepim-kjots

• NoteCase — Portable hierarchical note manager, coded in C++ using bindings to the GTK+ toolkit.

http://notecase.sourceforge.net || notecase^AUR

• org-mode — Emacs mode for notes, project planning and authoring.

http://orgmode.org || emacs-org-mode^AUR

• Tomboy — Desktop note-taking application for Linux and Unix with a wiki-like linking system to connect notes together.

http://projects.gnome.org/tomboy/ || tomboy

• zim — WYSIWYG text editor that aims at bringing the concept of a wiki to the desktop.

http://zim-wiki.org/ || zim

Translation and localization

• Apertium — Free and open source rule-based machine translation platform with available language data. It supports the following formats: HTML, Microsoft Office 2007 XML, OpenDocument, TMX, MediaWiki and others.

http://apertium.org/ || apertium^AUR

• Gtranslator — Enhanced gettext po file editor for the GNOME. It handles all forms of gettext po files and includes very useful features.

https://projects.gnome.org/gtranslator/ || gtranslator

• Lokalize — Standard KDE tool for software translation. It includes basic editing of PO files, support for glossary, translation memory, project managing, etc. It belongs to kdesdk

http://userbase.kde.org/Lokalize || kdesdk-lokalize

• Moses — Statistical machine translation tool (language data not included).

http://statmt.org/moses || not packaged? search in AUR

• OmegaT — General translator's tool which contains a lot of translation memory features and can give suggestions from Google Translate. It supports the following formats: HTML, Microsoft Office 2007 XML, OpenDocument, XLIFF/Okapi, MediaWiki, plain text, TMX and others.

http://omegat.org || omegat^AUR

• Poedit — Simple gettext/po-based translation tool.

http://poedit.net || poedit

• Pology — Set of Python tools for dealing with gettext/po-files.

http://techbase.kde.org/Localization/Tools/Pology || pology^AUR

• Virtaal — Editor for translation of both software and other text, based on Translate Toolkit. It supports the following formats: gettext, XLIFF , TMX, TBX, Wordfast, Qt Linguist , Qt Phrase Book, OmegaT glossary and others. It can also show suggestions from Apertium, Google Translate, Bing Translator, Moses and others.

http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/virtaal || virtaal^AUR