TextRoom is a fullscreen text editor designed to help writers concentrate on drafting. Its keyboard-oriented interface keeps common editing operations accessible without surrounding the document with extensive toolbars.
The application combines a quiet writing environment with basic formatting and small creative-writing utilities. It is a legacy project, and compatibility with present-day systems should be checked rather than assumed.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Choose plain-text editing or apply basic rich text formatting, including bold, italic and underline.
- Change fonts, text sizes and colours within a document.
- Adjust editor dimensions, paragraph spacing, cursor width and tab stops.
- Set target word counts, calendar deadlines and short timed writing goals.
- Display live word counts for the complete document or selected text.
- Show character counts, configurable page counts and a status-bar clock.
- Enable flow mode to disable Backspace and Delete while drafting.
- Save work automatically and restore the last document and cursor position at startup.
- Check spelling with Hunspell dictionaries.
- Insert images and export documents to OpenDocument Text.
- Print documents directly from the application.
- Keep temporary notes in an integrated scratchpad.
- Develop ideas using the MiniFlo mind-mapping tool.
- Generate writing prompts with the GetAWord random-word utility.
- Play supported audio files through the basic MusicRoom player.
- Customise background images, status-bar colours and optional typewriter sounds.
- Use right-to-left text and left, right, centred or justified alignment.
- Insert the current date or time using configurable formatting.
- Cross-platform support – runs on Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, and Windows.
Website: code.google.com/archive/p/textroom
Support:
Developer: Petar Toushkov, Omer Bahri Gordebak
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
TextRoom is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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