Pagination

Turn your pages with a single mouse or key press

Resize pages in both height and width.

Change line, paragraph, word and letter spacing, indents etc.

No scrolling - text simply flows over to the next page.

Links

Create hyperlinks to disc file or internet.

Bookmarks

Multiple links to single bookmark.

Cycle between links matching linked bookmark.

Links in pdf are active.

Lists

All types.

Items can be reordered, copied, pasted, split, etc.

Multiple lists.

Search

Search by many criteria, including multiple words or phrases, and across multiple files.

File handling

open and write to a wide variety of file types.
.txt, .html, .docx, .odt, .xml, .rtf, .pdf,.epub, markdown, latex

File security

automatic backups

to disk and cloud.

versioning

of drafts is user selectable.

file syncing

across all your devices.

User interface

minimalist look

: toolbars and status bar can be switched on/off with a click or keystroke

Reverse selection

: select any text and surrounding text becomes invisible

Typewriter mode

keyboard only mode

voice input mode

scroll mode

Text Formatting

All page elements: line, paragraph, word and letter spacing

column height and width

drop caps, block quotes, hanging indent, zero indent

font kerning, customised font darkening

Text selection

Selection of text is state of the art - every which way you can think of selecting text, we do it.

Keyboard shortcuts

Most standard shortcuts supported.

Custom caret

Choose between browser (1pixel) and custom(2 pixel) caret.

Set caret to blink or not to blink.

3 different colors in both normal and dark mode.

“ Smart quotes ”

For dialogue and quoted strings.

Nested quote marks supported.

Images

Insert from disc or web.

Resize, move, wrap, cut, copy, paste.

Statistics

Full counts:

characters, words, lines, sentences, paragraphs, pages, selections.

Printing

How important is printing! writoro's motto says it all:

“WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU PRINT”

This means that what you compose and format on the screen gets replicated as close as possible in the output pdf. So you can compose and shape your text visually and send the output pdf directly to your printer or publisher of choice with confidence that your design will be faithfully preserved.

Self publishing

The raw latex file is output as standard with the pdf. Perfect for working with your book editor or graphics designer.

Help

Did we mention context-sensitive help?
Right click on any menu item and you're shown a full rundown on its capabilities.

Spellchecking

For those who don't like being interrupted by red squiggly lines, we have good news for you. We don't do it that way. Spellchecking in writoro is strictly on-demand. You write your text, then hit "spellcheck", and the whole text is spell-checked in one go. Simple, unobtrusive. No squiggly lines to interrupt your thought processes.

Sidenotes and footnotes

Sidenotes and footnotes get printed to the pdf as they should.
Sidenotes stay exactly next to their links on the screen, even when you change page sizes, font sizes, etc.

What else

Everything you'd expect of a good word processor: undo/redo, cut-copy-paste, lists, dark mode, drop caps, image inserting, smart quotes, read-only mode, links, bookmarks, font and background coloring, etc, etc.

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Are you a google docs user? If so, we have good news: we're over 70% compatible (most main features covered) and aiming for over 90% compatibility by mid 2023. Not bad, considering we offer over 40 features that docs doesn't have.

Now for some really cool stuff.

writoro does tense changing (present-past and reverse). This is a huge boon for fiction writers. No more tedious retyping to get two versions. The transformations are pretty much instant with a single click. And with a further click you can switch back and forth between the versions for comparison. Plus you get the choice of saving the changes with the file, or saving to two different versions.

This is the first of a series of natural language capabilites planned for writoro. Including grammar checking.

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So, why no scrolling? All word processors scroll, right?

They do. But consider this. Scrolling is not how you read a book, and it needn't be the way you write one either.

Other word processors don't do pagination because pagination is difficult.

writoro presents a beautifully simple 2 pane interface, which can be switched to a single pane with a click (or, if you insist, to a scrolling interface also). It simulates your final printed book-output faithfully.