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Posted by shatteredmindofbob
Jan 30, 2016 at 04:59 PM
I have downloaded it. It’s okay.
The mixture of markup and live preview, as opposed to having the preview in separate pane is kinda neat. It has decent support for tables. It also loads pretty quickly.
It’s missing a few things, though. No word count, no footnotes and it doesn’t render sextet headings properly.
Might be alright for dashing off a quick blog post, but I can’t see using it for any serious project, or really, any writing task I’d even refer to as a “project.”
Posted by Dr Andus
Jan 30, 2016 at 10:12 PM
shatteredmindofbob wrote:
>It’s missing a few things, though. No word count, no footnotes and it
>doesn’t render sextet headings properly.
>
>Might be alright for dashing off a quick blog post, but I can’t see
>using it for any serious project, or really, any writing task I’d even
>refer to as a “project.”
Managed to download it in the end. The headings worked fine here.
I could live without word count (have an AutoHotkey script for that) and I don’t use footnotes, and I’m even fine without “project” features (I don’t use WriteMonkey or SmartDown for managing an entire project either, I just use them for writing chapter-sized texts).
But I still couldn’t find a compelling reason to use Abricotine instead of WriteMonkey or SmartDown. The main issue for me is the white background and the lack of ease to customise the look. I found a .CSS file in its directory but I don’t want to have to fiddle with individual bits of code to customise the style.
This is one big reason I prefer WriteMonkey even over SmartDown: it’s just so easy to change the styling of the workspace with just a few clicks, or even set up multiple themes and profiles and switch between them easily.
Posted by Dr Andus
Jan 30, 2016 at 10:24 PM
One advantage of Abricotine over SmartDown is that it has an optional Table of Contents view. But it lacks folding, which SmartDown does have.
In any case, it’s nice to have Abricotine around as another Markdown editor. While it seems to focus more on writing for the web, I could see it becoming a nice distraction-free writing tool if some of the aforementioned issues were addressed.
Posted by jperlman
Jan 30, 2016 at 11:10 PM
Hello, I don’t think I may be able to reply, not or maybe just not timely… But I would just like to comment about LightPaper. I remember when LightPaper was for Android… Text Editor, the link now points to the Mac version. They have have one other app which I don’t remember by name that has a sort of mandala chart for viewing your file system and it’s allocattions. It worked on Windows, too, back then. This was a few years ago. Anyway, I just would like to say it is, when I tried it, Lightpaper, a very nice app, there was a free version and I think there was a paid version, I can’t remember though, this was sometime back. Just want to to fill you in about the Android app of LightPaper that existed back then, though…
I’m just commenting, but don’t think I may be able to carry on a conversation, anyway, thanks all for being so nice in the forum, here, and letting me share what I wanted to share with you all…
...jperlman
Posted by Dr Andus
Jan 31, 2016 at 12:16 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
>This is one big reason I prefer WriteMonkey even over SmartDown: it’s
>just so easy to change the styling of the workspace with just a few
>clicks, or even set up multiple themes and profiles and switch between
>them easily.
Having said that, it looks like SmartDown 2.0 is going to make it a lot easier to customise its appearance:
http://www.aflava.com/smartdown-configuration-options/