You could do something similar with AutoHotkey, I think. Of course you don’t have the option to have wide texts an graphs, but at least something of the size of an icon.
Yeah that's nice for specific cases where you just need to see the text (and the site doesn't require JavaScript for that).
But beyond that, I can see it being really nice for the muscle memory keystrokes for cursor movement, marking text, copy/paste, etc. being the same. I'm definitely going to give these a try.
This is pretty cool. I think markdown support and animations when typing (like Word has) would be welcome additions. Also, there seems to be flickering when I first start typing?
I'm assuming you can style colours, width of text in the wide editor, etc? Going back to the small window with an "X" would be a bit unnerving with lots of text typed in.
Sublime text has this too, except it's a popup. And Package Control, too, has a tab that pops open a few seconds after you've started writing. In my opinion they're not really a problem.
You can do that with Latex as well? I use TexStudio which has a preview pane. Any time I make changes I hit f5 and it updates pretty quickly. It's not instantly but pretty close to it, and there are already less problems with things shifting around because it manages that better than Word does, by design.
Sounds great. I couldn't (quickly) find any screenshots, so I might just download and try.
FWIW, WordPerfect's "reveal codes" feature remains my ideal solution.
Long before the advent of desktop publishing and GUIs and markup languages. Split screen horizontally, vs vertically side-by-side, with WordPerfect's own nomenclature for formatting attributes. Edit in either screen. Live cursor shown in both screens. Live updates back and forth.
Heaven.
I haven't used WordPerfect for decades, so my bias might just be nostalgia.
In Word 2010 at least, a simple right-click on highlighted text brings up something like a mini Home tab. You can change the font, size, color, alignment and everything.
This will be really great for designers who do a lot of formating and dragging things around the screen with little typing. You could set borders, padding, alignment, columns all sorts of things to make documents look really nice.
It's an interesting idea. I don't remember ever thinking about previewing my text under a different style so I don't know if it would help me, but I would be willing to try it.
That's pretty handy. In Chrome ctrl+b and ctrl+i bold and italics the text respectively. If I can get bullets that could be a nice replacement for the text editor I currently use for notes.
Have you tried LyX (http://www.lyx.org)? It's a WYSIWYM (your first point) graphical editor for LaTeX and as far as I remember shows you a pretty good preview of your document as you're typing (your second point).
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