Apostrophe (formerly known as UberWriter) is an
open-source,
minimalist
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Markdown
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text editor, developed by Wolf Vollprecht. It was originally created for the Ubuntu App Showdown, and has since received recognition as one of the ''Top 10 Ubuntu Apps of 2012''.
History
Wolf Vollprecht credited the Mac application
iA Writer
iA Writer is a text editor developed by Information Architects (iA), and was initially released on September 22, 2010, for iOS ( iPhone and iPad), May 28, 2011, for macOS and 2018 for Microsoft Windows through a Kickstarter campaign.
iA states ...
as being the inspiration for UberWriter, and has expressed his wish to see the two programs become compatible:
A lot of inspiration for UberWriter comes from iA Writer, which is (sadly) only available for Mac OS X users to this date. However, if you like UberWriter and own a Mac, please consider buying iA Writer as I do not want to do any harm to them.
I actually would really like to see the two programs being compatible, as iA Writer is also available for iPad and iPhone. As soon as Dropbox Support comes to UberWriter this might happen.
Features
* Clean user interface
* A focus mode, which greys out all but the sentence you are actively working on
* Fullscreen mode
* Markdown
syntax highlighting
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* Live word and character counting
* Live preview mode
* Out-of-the-box math support
* Can export Markdown to
OpenDocument
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(ODF),
PDF,
EPUB,
Rich Text Format (RTF),
HTML
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,
LaTeX
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, and
MediaWiki Markup
UberWriter (focus mode).png , Focus mode in UberWriter
UberWriter Markdown Preview with TEX Math.png , UberWriter displaying TEX math
See also
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List of text editors
The following is a list of notable text editors.
Graphical and text user interface
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Graphical user interface
Text user interface
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Comparison of text editors
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iA Writer
iA Writer is a text editor developed by Information Architects (iA), and was initially released on September 22, 2010, for iOS ( iPhone and iPad), May 28, 2011, for macOS and 2018 for Microsoft Windows through a Kickstarter campaign.
iA states ...
References
External links
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Apostrophe's repoon Gnome.org's
GitLab
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instance
Apostropheon
Flathub
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Free text editors
Text Editors
A text editor is a type of computer program that edits plain text. Such programs are sometimes known as "notepad" software (e.g. Windows Notepad). Text editors are provided with operating systems and software development packages, and can be u ...
Text editors that use GTK
Software using the GPL license
Free software programmed in Python