i have no idea why this doesn't get any attention here on hacker-news. it looks like a very nice start to me. (and i'll have higher praise if i can push it har

i have no idea why this doesn't get any attention here on hacker-news. it looks like a very nice start to me. (and i'll have higher praise if i can push it hard and have it do well, but i haven't had time to stress it.) on the whole, i don't see much value in json, however. and part of the reason is that you're just storing the presentational information (font, size, color, styling), and not the structural (a.k.a. "semantic") information. (which is the problem with any wysiwyg approach today.) rethink your philosophical approach on that issue, and make your save-to-file output some light-markup format, either restructured-text (blah) or markdown (blah blah) or my z.m.l. (zen markup language), and i think you'll be on the way to having a definite winner on your hands. -bowerbird