> If anyone knows of any good console based editors that have good word
> processing features, such as multiple line spacing, spell checking,
> footnote support, etc etc let me know!
I'm not sure what editors are out there, but part of the Unix approach is
to split up this sort of processing among multiple tools. (I'm not saying
that's the only way to do it, just that it's an option.) With this
approach, you end up with small tools that do one thing well and interface
easily with everything else (instead of, say, one editor that supports
footnotes and another that supports spell-checking, just as a hypothetical
example).
You can spell-check a file with 'spell' (implemented via ispell on Linux,
but usually written as a shell script on other Unixes) and handle
line-spacing with 'awk' (awk '{print $0"\n"}'). Footnoting is a bit
trickier, since it really depends on what you want the interface to be
like. I'd personally probably do it with a simple shell or perl script.
Of course, there's latex for real document processing. And if you're just
looking for an integrated solution, someone will surely chime in with
support for a favorite editor -- probably emacs. :)
Shawn