The past two posts I wrote on this topic looked at defining the difference between a text editor and a word processor. The posts in this series represent me ‘thinking out loud’ about what word processing needs to evolve into in the age of the web. So far, in my opinion we haven’t seen an evolution … Continue reading “Towards Web-based Word Processors p3”
To get this discussion off the ground, I think it’s helpful to first think of what the standard features of a text editor are since word processors have all these features and then some. It’s the ‘and then some’ that I’m most interested in i.e. the essential features that make something a word processor. Text Editor … Continue reading “Towards Web-based Word Processors p2”
Working with publishers is fantastic because they are hardcore text workers. These people need a lot from their tools, in particular, they need a lot from the tools they use to edit and improve texts. Typically this has been the realm of Microsoft Word. But there are very many reasons why we need to liberate … Continue reading “Towards Web-based Word Processors p1”
We are currently adding features to the Editoria editor that migrate the component from a Text Editor towards being a web based Word Processor. More information coming soon!
Making a case for HTML editors as stealth desktop word processors… the strategy has been so stealthy that not even the developers realised what they were building. We use all over-complicated software to create desktop documents. Microsoft Word, LibreOffice, whatever you like – we know them. They are one of the core apps in any user’s … Continue reading “The Case for HTML Word Processors”
So, at Coko I’ve pondered, designed and delivered several major technologies. Along this road I’ve been scoffed at a lot when I’ve advocated for each of these approaches, but then we delivered them. I’m thinking of things like a typesetting engine – Pagedjs. No one in their right mind opts to commit time and resources … Continue reading “One Enormous Step at a Time – Now JATS”
Recently I’ve been amazed at what we can do with Editoria. The complexity of the content we can manage and output is really astounding. I’ll share some EPUB and PDF soon that shows what the content can look like. This is the result of many years work. I have been developing book production systems for … Continue reading “Editoria”
Kotahi has been in the wings for a while. Now, however, we are moving ahead with some more accelerated development. In short-time the product has been extended in collaboration with eLife. We now also have the platform in production at eLife. The following is a brief outline of the current state. Importing content Kotahi has … Continue reading “A brief outline of Kotahi features”
A pretty big one.. The page you’re looking for could not be found (404) coko.foundation So…the major stuff here is really the new architecture, which makes this app very scalable and improves stability. In addition the new Wax editor (wax 2) is in place. Editoria in the past has had stability issues due to the … Continue reading “Major new Editoria release”
The forthcoming Wax 2 web based word processor (1.0 release shortly) can allow us to take advantage of some nice ProseMirror plugins including this wonderful addition for math: https://github.com/benrbray/prosemirror-math The interaction model is quite nice – typing $$ immediately drops you into block math mode and typing $ … $ assigns marks out inline math. … Continue reading “Wax 2 and Math”