Substance - unusual text editor for writers, journalists, academics

It would seem, well, what new can come up with a text editor? The toolbar on top, in the middle of the editing area, a status bar below - the standard form Program for working with text so deeply ingrained in our consciousness that seems to be on the other simply does not it happens. However, the creators of the online service Substance decided to do things his own way.

To use is necessary to create the editor, and then you can create your document. By the way, the document in Substance It presented as a sequence of individual blocks, each of which has its own properties and toolbars appearing right next to the text. In total, there are five types of blocks: text, image, title, code (editor works fine with most programming languages), an external resource. Each unit can be freely moved in the right place, and the type of document is saved, even if your text contains a layered structure with chapters and subtitles.

While working on a document, you can invite people by entering their email address, and access rights - only view or edit. In addition, Substance contains an excellent built-in commenting system that allows readers to post comments to each block of the document that allows you to collect more detailed views of colleagues on their work or instructions of the supervisor, and so Further. You can subscribe to the RSS feed to be informed of all the edits and comments.

Finished documents can be published online for public viewing or export in one of many formats. That's only with saving to PDF there are big problems - Cyrillic is not supported.

In general, text editor Substance It struck me as an interesting application. User-friendly interface, designed in a minimalist style, and a well thought out feature set allows use it to create and publish a variety of texts, including articles, essays, research works. Substance is the product of open source, so you can if you want to use it in their projects.

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