TextRoom

A Cross Platform Full Screen Rich Text Editor For Writers.

Download TextRoom 0.8.2

Download TextRoom 0.8.1

Silent Version- Linux Source archive Note that this version doesn't require SDL or hunspell.
Windows Portable

Download TextRoom 0.6.5

Who develops TextRoom?

TextRoom is developed by:
Omer Bahri Gordebak

It started its life in hands of Petar Toushkov, as a personal offshoot of Phrasis Project by Jacob R Rideout

Additional help, code and insights by:
adamvert from http://ubuntuforums.org,
zebulon M from http://ubuntuforums.org,
Maurice Gilden.

Artwork by: Edward Solodukhin

FreeBSD port by: Michael James Brune

Mac OS X port by: Norberto Lopes

Blog of gordebak:

developing gordebak

Participate

If you want to participate in any way, you are welcome to SourceForge or Google Code. Any help or feedback is appreciated.

You can always Donate to the project.

Awards

What is TextRoom?

TextRoom is a room of your own. Read the GPLv3

It is a free (as in freedom and free beer) full screen rich text editor developed with especially writers in mind.

TextRoom and all other similar editors share one goal: to get you writing right away by providing distraction free environment to your liking, as well as familiar set of keyboard shortcuts to control its behavior. If you don't feel comfortable already with your editor of choice, you may find it useful.

TextRoom works on Windows, Mac OS X, Ubuntu, Fedora and many other Linux distributions. There is a port for FreeBSD users.

Press F1 to see a list of commands in TextRoom.

Features

Version 0.8.2

Export your documents to Google Docs.
MiniFlo mindmapper based on Flo by Ian Reinhart Geiser.
GetAWord random word generator
MusicRoom very basic music player. (Can't play mp3, but you are good with ogg).
basic rich text editing: bold, italic, underline, and changing font, font size and color
configurable statusbar colors and fonts
configurable editor width and height
configurable tab stop width and paragraph spacing.
.odt export.
you can insert images to your documents.
configurable behavior: full-screen on/off, auto save, flow mode (disable delete and backspace keys), load last document on startup, remember position in text for the last file
insert current time and/or date in a configurable fashion
live word count for all text and selected text
live character count option
configurable page count option
live clock on statusbar
targets: setting deadline from a graphical calendar
targets: setting a target word count
targets: setting short deadlines to write in minutes
keyboard shortcuts for the most common tasks (if you start the program for the first time, just press F1 for help)
typing sounds similar to a typewriter which can be disabled
cross-platform
Spellcheck with hunspell (US English and Turkish, for now.).
Universal Linux installer.
Printing support.
Background images.
Transparent statusbar.
File association with .txr files.
Restoring all settings to defaults.
Plain text only or rich text options.
Scratchpad.
Line indent (Shift+Enter ignores indent).
RTL support.
Aligment (Right, Left, Centered and Justified).

Requirements

On any Linux distro you will need Qt4.7 (or later) with opengl,svg and xml libs, SDL 1.2.14 (or later), SDL-mixer 1.2.8 (or later), Hunspell 1.2.11 (or later) libraries, libxml++, libcurl3, glibmm installed to run the program. To compile from source you will need development libraries as well (packages usually having "-dev" or "-devel" in their names.

Windows installer and Mac OS X app bundle comes with the necessary libraries, so you don't have to install anything additional.

Installation

On Any Linux Distro from Installer:

After download, open up a terminal, cd to the directory which contains the downloaded file and type:

./textroom-xxx-installer.bin

Installer will ask your user (not root) password when necessary.

You can start TextRoom by clicking on the menu entry or typing:

textroom

On Linux from Source:

After download, open up a terminal, cd to the directory which contains the downloaded file and to uncompress, type:

tar -xzvf ./textroom-xxx.tar.gz (xxx is the version number)

Then cd to the directory created

cd ./textroom-xxx

And execute

qmake-qt4 (On some distros only "qmake")

make

sudo make install

make clean

You can start TextRoom by clicking on the menu entry or typing:

textroom

On Ubuntu:

Just double click the .deb file, or type:

sudo dpkg -i textroom-xxx.deb

On Fedora:

Double click the .rpm file, or type:

rpm -i textroom-xxx.rpm

On Windows:

Just double click the installer and follow the instructions.

On Windows, removed file associations because of some bugs. TextRoom not reading the options first time the dialog accepted is a known bug, but I couldn't find a workaround yet. It is strongly recommended that you uninstall the previous version first. You can install additional hunspell dictionaries by putting the .aff and .dic files into the application folder.