Writing in the editor

A quiet page for prose: a comfortable line length, the styles a manuscript actually uses, and nothing else in the way.

The styles a novel needs

Scenes are plain text, written in Markdown, so the styles are the ones a manuscript needs: italics, bold, block quotes for letters and epigraphs, and scene breaks. Use the Format menu, the right-click menu or the keyboard; you never need to type the marks yourself, though you can. Clear Formatting takes bold and italic off again.

Septangular also takes care of typography when it builds the book: straight quotes become curly, two or three hyphens become an en or em dash, and three dots become an ellipsis.

Spelling

Your system’s spelling checker underlines misspellings as you type. Right-click one for suggestions, or to learn the word.

A page that suits you

View → Editor Font offers Book Serif, Georgia, Times New Roman, a sans serif and a typewriter face, and View → Editor Text Size sets the size. They change only how the page looks to you while you write; how the book is built is set by its build configurations.

Unsaved until you save

Each scene keeps its own undo history and its place, so you can move between scenes and come back to where you were. Nothing is written to disk until you save, and a save keeps every changed scene together as one version of the book. Auto-save does the same every few minutes, if you like.