Great.. been looking forward to this for a long time.. On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Bernhard Pieber <[email protected]>wrote:
> Dear Smalltalkers, > > I am very happy to announce that the Styled Text Editor for the brand new > Cuis 4.0 is now available on GitHub [1]. The Styled Text Editor was first > presented by me at last year's ESUG in Edinburgh [2]. Thanks to ESUG the > presentation was recorded [3]. > > The Styled Text Editor is a framework for rich text editing using styles > as known from popular word processors like Apple Pages or Microsoft Word. > It features paragraph and character styles, allowing easy text formatting > using styles only. It is intended for applications where users need to work > with good looking rich text in a simple and fast way. > > Rich text commonly refers to text with formatting information like > different fonts, sizes, alignments, and emphasis. To make editing as simple > as possible instead of individual formatting information end users apply > styles to parts of the text. Editing is made fast by keyboard shortcuts for > text navigation, selection, and styles selection. Where possible the feel > of widely used rich text editors is supported. > > It includes many features like > - numbered and bulleted list paragraph styles > - support for images > - multiple level undo and redo > - text completion using various glossaries including a dictionary of > English with about 166.000 words > - RTF clipboard (on OS X VMs with the ClipboardExtendedPlugin) > > The Styled Text Editor is developed in Cuis with the plan to eventually > port it to Squeak and Pharo. The development of the Styled Text Editor > inspired many changes to Cuis itself, and It is the first package to use > the brand new DVCS based development process for external packages for Cuis > 4.0. > > The idea and funding was provided by me, Bernhard Pieber and my company > Software Generation. The implementation was done by Juan Vuletich, the > mastermind behind Cuis. Thanks Juan for the close cooperation. It was and > still is great fun to work with you. > > We are looking forward to feedback from you. Fork it on GitHub [1], create > issues and send us pull requests. ;-) > > Cheers, > Bernhard Pieber > > [1] https://github.com/bpieber/Cuis-StyledTextEditor > [2] > http://www.esug.org/wiki/pier/Conferences/2011/Schedule-And-Talks/StyledTextEditor > [3] > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUoVbvwspi8&list=PL813665D04A2E4C0A&index=7&feature=plpp_video >
