Developed by project Opéra at Inria Rhône-Alpes
Thot is a structured document editor, offering a graphical WYSIWYG interface under X-Windows. Learn more about Thot history and Thot Copyright.
Thot offers the usual functionality of a word processor, but it also processes the document structure. It includes a large set of advanced tools, such as a spell checker and an index generator, and it allows to export documents to common formats like HTML and LaTeX.
Since version 2.0, Thot is available for free.
Please read the documentation and follow the installation instruction.
Download the source code
Download precompiled binaries
Thot has it's own directory on Sunsite Linux archive and the Sunsite.Unc.Edu Mirrors under the apps/editors/X/thot Linux directory.
The Thot editor is build on top of the Thot library developed at Inria by project Opera. Some documentation is also available for developers :
The Thot API manual
The APP manual
A mailing list is available for the support of Thot:
subscribe to the mailing list: send a mail to majordomo@imag.fr containing a line with "subscribe thot" in the content of the message
send a mail to mailing list: use the address thot@imag.fr
consult the mailing list archive.
unsubscribe to the mailing list: send a mail to majordomo@imag.fr containing a line with "unsubscribe thot" in the content of the message
Many thanks to the local Users Group Guilde who accepted to beta-test the port of Thot to Linux.
Last modified: November 18, 1997