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Re:Texture – As open as LaTeX and as simple as a classic wor... by Someone on Friday October 07, 2016 @07:07PM (#12664624)
When I downloaded and unzipped this, I got a folder with what looked like a web site. I figured I would need to run it under a web server, but double-clicked the ‘index.html’ file anyways.

That opened a simple page with 3 links to example files, and clicking either opened a working document editor, where ‘working’ seems to include the saving of changes (somewhere in browser history; edits survive closing the web page, but get lost on clearing history). (Tested on Safari, Chrome, and FireFox on Mac OS X Sierra)

I guess that means this aims to be a powerful document editor with rich and highly developed cross-platform support.

It’s not as flexible as LaTeX or markdown, but that is on purpose.

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Re:Texture – As open as LaTeX and as simple as a classic wor... by hprotagonist on Friday October 07, 2016 @08:04PM (#12664853)
by rich and highly developed, i mean things like "having a package manager that hooks me into mendeley, zotero, and github, has an integrated linter, supports build and live-preview, and lets me run custom macros with whatever keybindings i prefer". "runs everywhere because it's in javascript" doesn't necessarily get me any of that-- the editing functionalities in this tool seem rudimentary so far.
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Re:Texture – As open as LaTeX and as simple as a classic wor... by Someone on Saturday October 08, 2016 @03:19AM (#12666022)
For the hooks and key bindings: it is an alpha release of the initial version. Those things may come, and will come if it becomes successful and users want it. Certainly, it has to provide a way to really store documents. The cloud then is a natural choice for this kind of tool.

Also, I think this doesn't need a linter, as the UI limits you to creating valid documents, and it has live preview because it is wysiwig (it isn't TeX and doesn't aim to be)

I would guess (but it is not my project) macros are unlikely to come soon, if at all.

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