Many nifty little improvements of late. Here's one this week:

This version introduces a new Spotlight feature. The Spotlight is a view mode dimming out everything except the fragment of document you are working on:

https://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/en/news/3_2_10_000.htm

Check out the other updates:
https://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/en/news/release_notes.php

Steve

The only thing which keeps Atlantis from being the best word processor available for any platform is the lack of comments. I use it for first drafts but then have to switch for revisions. It's frustrating because they've a lot of bells and whistles which are far less useful.

Small, quick and plenty of features. A very good replacement for MS Word, but unfortunately not for general technical writing.

a) Equations written with the new MS editor: they cannot be seen in a docx using Atlantis and are deleted after saving it;
b) Classic (OLE MS Equation 3.0) equations: they are turned into simple images and cannot be edited afterwards.

Other good MS Word replacements are able to manage equations of type b): WPS (Kingsoft) Writer and Textmaker come to mind. I hope to be wrong, but I do not know any replacement that is able to manage equations of type a).

You are correct Atlantis is not a replacement for MS Word and some others, it's not meant to be in my opinion. To me it is best as a straight forward word processor (manipulator). I also have MS Word for only one reason; it handles the copy and paste formatting from email like no one else can (I've tried Kingsoft, Libre office, etc).

Steve

Atlantis is currently on Bits du Jour, and should be tomorrow as well:
http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/atlantis-word-processor

"The only thing which keeps Atlantis from being the best word processor available for any platform is the lack of comments. I use it for first drafts but then have to switch for revisions. It’s frustrating because they’ve a lot of bells and whistles which are far less useful."

You know, it's just not good enough, no text processor is, and whilst it's true that lately, AHK gets worse and worse, by the fact that for more and more of new or just newer programs, it's not able anymore to interact with the, what they call it, "non-conformist/traditional/whatever" windows, it's a fact that any writing except for, possibly, poetry/"lyrics", is about construction*, above any other factor, and that means you must try to get something that will well interplay with some basic AHK coding (see my years-old DC hints about that), for anything more than it offers naturally, but the core service you should ask from it is very well backup of your construction needs. As for "comments", I already detailed how to process them in any tool not providing the necessary code for them, originally, but that's certainly not the slightest possible argument in favor of minor tools like "Atlantis". Write some lines of code, get some 2-pane outliner, and you're done, starting for becoming highly productive at last.

*= It's one of the big ironies in arts that in music, that construction thing once was predominant, too (Beethoven et al.), whilst it's been a long time that that has been replaced by melody (between Schubert and Schumann), but then, music isn't writing, is it: music being an art form with immediate effect, whilst writings soaking in over some time lapse, so the old masters simply were mistaken; of course that remark doesn't to (yesterday's and today's) bourgeois types who don't feel music but simply celebrate them for their social needs.

Sorry, they call those windows "non-standard", but well, standards change over time, whilst some basics remain the same, don't they.

Atlantis now has collapsible headings:
https://www.atlantiswordprocessor.com/en/help/collapsible_headings.htm

"When you want to focus on certain parts of a long document, you can temporarily collapse the document parts that you currently do not need. You can collapse document parts when the document contains headings (paragraphs formatted with the "Heading N" styles, or any other paragraphs with the "outline level" different than "body text")."

I've left Windows for good, and don't know if I want to wrestle it in Wine on Linux. But Atlantis looks good, has a reasonable price ($35), and with collapsable headings, looks pretty useable. I'm glad to see this outliner-like functions in editors. So logical!

jaslar wrote:

I've left Windows for good, and don't know if I want to wrestle it in
Wine on Linux. But Atlantis looks good, has a reasonable price ($35),
and with collapsable headings, looks pretty useable. I'm glad to see
this outliner-like functions in editors. So logical!

Yes, increasingly tempting to cut ties with Windows and it's apps as the years go by. Which Linux distro(s) have you used so far?

I monitor Atlantis closely, use it regularly, and post on the Atlantis forums. I am glad someone called attention to the collapsing heading feature as I intended to, but didn't find time to post. I am only getting started using it but it seems to work very well. Atlantis' "control panel" already had lots of useful features, and now with collapsible headings it is significantly more friendly to outlining.

In reading the comments I can address the Linux comment. All my desktops run Linux, and in one of the more recent revisions Atlantis switched something in its code to specifically address problems running under wine.

Whereas in the past I would have glitches when running Atlantis in wine, it is now rock solid and gives me no problems whatsoever.

As other posters have said Atlantis does not meet every need, but it is a great tool and I use it all the time rather than the standard suites.

I like Atlantis a lot. It's fast, it manages words, paragraphs, pages, etc beautifully and easily.

There are some "features" that it does not support. That's the way it should be; stay focused and avoid bloat.

I started a long time ago with Red Hat, then moved to PC-LinuxOS, did a spell with Ubuntu, Mint, and now mostly use either Lubuntu (a familiar eco-system) or most recently, Solus (which is a very elegant and speedy distro). I guess Chrome OS is also a Linux derivative. I've also fiddled with Peppermint and MX-Linux. Today, most of them are so good that they are perfectly acceptable alternatives to Windows or the Mac OS, with not even much of a learning curve anymore. I start most of my writing in Dynalist (first draft, structural editing), Simplenote (markup for posting to blogs and the like), and Google Docs for longer form pieces that need some deeper editing. Those tools can be accessed from anything, including my Android phone or aging iPad.

washere wrote:

jaslar wrote:
I've left Windows for good, and don't know if I want to wrestle it in
>Wine on Linux. But Atlantis looks good, has a reasonable price ($35),
>and with collapsable headings, looks pretty useable. I'm glad to see
>this outliner-like functions in editors. So logical!

Yes, increasingly tempting to cut ties with Windows and it's apps as the
years go by. Which Linux distro(s) have you used so far?

Thanks jaslar. I hardly turn on my Linux laptop (ubuntu), MacBook, Chromebook or tablets as short of time these days. Nor the Windows Linux (WSL) I installed (will be native soon if as MS promised), with a nice UI enviro.

I got a list of 4 distros to test, probably well into next year. Top of which is Zorin OS (Core version, they also have lite, edu, €39 lifetime license version similar to Core with a few goodies).

Seems you've gone well into the clouds. My favorite outliner app also runs on Windows, Macs (Android mini app) and also Linux with many distros supported, he's the most genius outliner Dev there is, even if it only ran on one OS:

https://www.notecasepro.com/download.php