Who develops TextRoom?
TextRoom is developed by
Petar Toushkov and
Omer Bahri Gordebak.
It includes code from Phrasis by Jacob R Rideout
Additional help, code and insights by
adamvert - from http://ubuntuforums.org/
zebulon M - from http://ubuntuforums.org
Artwork by Donny Lim
Participate
If you want to participate in any way, you are welcome to SourceForge page. Any help or feedback is appreciated.
What is TextRoom?
TextRoom is a free (as in freedom and free beer) full screen text editor developed 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.
The Features
Version 0.4.2
- basic rich text editing: bold, italic, underline, and changing font and font size
- configurable statusbar colors and fonts
- configurable editor width and height
- 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
- live word count
- live clock on statusbar
- targets: setting deadline, target word count and timed writing
- 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: Linux and Windows. If anyone is interested in or has done compiling TextRoom on a Mac, please contact us.
Requirements
Qt4.3 (or later) development libraries for everything, SDL 1.2.13 (or later) and SDL-mixer 1.2.8 (or later) development libraries for typing sounds. Windows Installer package contains the necessary dlls, so Windows users don't have to install anything else than TextRoom.
Installation
On Linux:
After download, open up a terminal, cd to the directory which contains the downloaded file and to uncompress, type:
Then cd to the directory created
And execute
You can start TextRoom by clicking on the menu entry or typing
On Windows:
Just double click the downloaded .msi file and follow the instructions.