Neliels teksta redaktoru apskats ir atrodams thejemreport.com lapā. Principā tur tiek minēti daži populārākie maksas teksta redaktori kā arī viens bezmaksas – OpenOffice.org. Cik man zināms, tad ir pieejami vēl arī citi teksta redaktori, ja nemaldos, tad to starpā arī bezmaksas. Bet tā kā raksta autors teksta redaktorus izmanto diezgan intensīvi savā darbā, tad arī apskatītām programmām ir attiecīgas prasības.
There are a few basic necessities when working with professional documents and large writing projects: you need a competent on-the-fly spellchecker with a reasonably complete dictionary, good anti-aliased fonts with a diverse selection of styles, the ability to read from and save to Word 97/2000/XP document format, and formatting tools like dynamic page numbering and layout customization. And it always helps to have some extras like a decent thesaurus, a grammar checker, and the ability to export as a web page or PDF.
Raksta autors neuzskata, ka OpenOffice.org pat kā bezmaksas programma ir pietiekoši laba, lai noderētu nopietnam darbam. Viņš arī neko labu nesaka par jauno Wordu 2003.
Word 2003 is not only inferior to WordPerfect 2002, but it’s not even any better than Word XP and it can’t hold its own against StarWriter 6.1.