Last Updated on July 11, 2021
gWrite is a simple open source GTK+ HTML5 WYSIWYG editor, focusing on writing and simple text formatting.
This application can automatically generate a table of contents based on the document structure.
It aims to be lighter than OOWrite & OOWeb, and to be as useful as them.
Features include:
- HTML5 file format.
- Standard word processing user interface.
- Content structure oriented word processing.
- Title style table of contents production.
- Similar navigation/documentation views in Microsoft Word.
- Paragraph selection when double or right click in navigation view.
- Word count: for document or selections, count the words (with and without spaces), paragraphs, lines, English words, Chinese characters.
- Images inclusion via Base64.
Website: code.google.com/archive/p/gwrite
Support:
Developer: Jiahua Huang, Aron Xu
License: GNU LGPL v3

gWrite is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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