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Just wrote my first blog post using this and it was actually a nice refreshing experience. Much easier to write I found. My one gripe is when I export to Googl

Just wrote my first blog post using this and it was actually a nice refreshing experience. Much easier to write I found. My one gripe is when I export to Google Docs for further editing, it has some weird formatting. The words don't get wrapped, and adding new lines of text pushes everything down a new line, not sure how to get rid of that.

wildermuthn 12y ago
That is odd. Working on it.
- rhythmvs 12y ago
  Probably because you inject   (no breaking spaces) instead of regular word spaces — so lines can’t be wrapped. Also, the editor does not accept accented letters (Ä Ö Ü ä ö ü etc.), no Greek (Δεν Έλληνες), in short no Unicode, and not even full ASCII (common punctuation marks like — –). It seems the app is listening to keys and basically re-implementing the whole typing input — which means you’d be in for some very heavy very low-level stuff (support for all of the 128k Unicode codepoints)… I guess you’d had to do such a workaround to wrap the lines yourself, and move them up steps-wise, one line at a time (instead of the native scrolling behaviour). Though I really like the typewriter effect, one could ask if that isn’t at a very big expense (both in implementation effort and multi-language support). The idea of the app (and it’s adequate name) is nice, though: stripping down even the most basic editing features (cursor moves) effectively forces one to focus on the writing at hand. Love it.
  - wildermuthn 12y ago
    Google Docs works now — you pinpointed the problem exactly. It was a huge pain to recreate a textarea, but worthwhile in that I could finely tune the editing experience. I started out with a textarea, but as I tried to disable certain parts, it just became very apparent that I couldn't hack it to death. Better to start over and fake it. It was very interesting learning about the logic behind word-wrap!
wildermuthn 12y ago
Exports should work from now on. Still in beta however... ;)

wildermuthn 12y ago

That is odd. Working on it.

rhythmvs 12y ago
Probably because you inject   (no breaking spaces) instead of regular word spaces — so lines can’t be wrapped. Also, the editor does not accept accented letters (Ä Ö Ü ä ö ü etc.), no Greek (Δεν Έλληνες), in short no Unicode, and not even full ASCII (common punctuation marks like — –). It seems the app is listening to keys and basically re-implementing the whole typing input — which means you’d be in for some very heavy very low-level stuff (support for all of the 128k Unicode codepoints)… I guess you’d had to do such a workaround to wrap the lines yourself, and move them up steps-wise, one line at a time (instead of the native scrolling behaviour). Though I really like the typewriter effect, one could ask if that isn’t at a very big expense (both in implementation effort and multi-language support). The idea of the app (and it’s adequate name) is nice, though: stripping down even the most basic editing features (cursor moves) effectively forces one to focus on the writing at hand. Love it.
- wildermuthn 12y ago
  Google Docs works now — you pinpointed the problem exactly. It was a huge pain to recreate a textarea, but worthwhile in that I could finely tune the editing experience. I started out with a textarea, but as I tried to disable certain parts, it just became very apparent that I couldn't hack it to death. Better to start over and fake it. It was very interesting learning about the logic behind word-wrap!

wildermuthn 12y ago

Exports should work from now on. Still in beta however... ;)