ghostwriter is a Markdown editor for drafting prose in a quiet workspace. It keeps the writing process separate from final document formatting, making it suitable for articles, notes and longer manuscripts.
The application belongs to KDE and combines a conventional text-editing workflow with tools intended to encourage sustained writing. Authors can choose how much supporting information remains visible while they work.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Preview the rendered HTML document as you type.
- Copy HTML from the preview for use in publishing systems and other applications.
- Use the built-in cmark-gfm processor to render GitHub Flavored Markdown.
- Integrate with external processors including Pandoc, MultiMarkdown, Discount and cmark.
- Export documents to the formats supported by the selected processor.
- Navigate headings through a sidebar outline, including navigation within the live preview.
- Use focus mode to emphasise the current line, sentence, paragraph or a small group of lines.
- Enable Hemingway mode to disable Backspace and Delete while drafting.
- Switch to fullscreen mode for a less cluttered writing environment.
- Inspect document statistics and writing-session information.
- Apply Markdown syntax highlighting while retaining direct access to the source text.
- Choose built-in light and dark themes or create a personalised theme.
- Customise the HTML preview through a stylesheet.
- Insert images by dragging them into the editor.
- Use keyboard navigation to move through document sections without reaching for the mouse.
- Cross-platform support – runs on Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, and Windows.
Website: ghostwriter.kde.org
Support:
Developer: KDE contributors; originally created by wereturtle
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
ghostwriter is written in C++ and C. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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