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Everything Wombat does

105 things, in a sentence each. The editor has them all; the manual, in its Menu, says how.

Writing

  • Bold, italic, underline and code, each with its key (⌘B, ⌘I, ⌘U, ⌘E).
  • Strikethrough, subscript, superscript, highlight and small capitals.
  • A color and a font from a palette, and larger or smaller text.
  • Links (⌘K).
  • A paragraph centered or aligned right, for a dedication or a signature.
  • Dashes, ellipses and the quotes of the document’s language as you type; undo gives back what you typed.
  • Select a word and type a quote or a bracket: it goes around the word.
  • A palette of the characters a keyboard lacks: dashes, quotes of many languages, math, arrows, currencies, Greek.
  • Two spaces become one, and an empty paragraph goes away: the template makes the room.
  • A white space or an empty line when you do mean one, each with a faint mark you can find.
  • Copy and paste inside Wombat keeps everything, footnotes and pictures too, even between two tabs.
  • Text pasted from elsewhere becomes plain paragraphs, without the looks of the page it came from.

Structure

  • Title, sections, subsections, subsubsections and one level more.
  • A section is everything up to the next heading of its level: no boxes to put text in.
  • The numbers of the sections follow when you move, add or delete one.
  • Any block becomes another from the pill of the Toolbar, or with ⌥⌘0 to ⌥⌘8.
  • A selection converts every block of its kind at once.
  • Bulleted and numbered lists, nested with Tab and ⇧Tab.
  • Descriptions: a term and what it means.
  • Quotations, with who said them, and quotes inside a sentence whose marks the template puts.
  • Verbatim blocks that keep every space, for code.
  • Boxes for a warning, a summary or an aside.
  • Page breaks and horizontal lines.
  • Subtitle, author and date go to their place under the title, wherever you insert them.
  • A cover: a picture to the edges of the first page, with its title and lines over it.
  • Twenty-seven designs for the cover, in the fonts and the color of the style.

The Outline

  • The document as a tree, each node with the icon of what it is.
  • A click takes you there; the node of the cursor is marked.
  • Sections open and close.
  • Drag a heading and its whole section goes with it, subsections and all.
  • Drop it further right and it becomes a subsection; its own go one level down.
  • A whole list turns bulleted or numbered from its node.
  • Sections only: the headings alone, the shape of a long document at a glance.
  • Every move can be undone.

Figures, tables, formulas and diagrams

  • Figures from PNG, JPEG, GIF, WebP, AVIF, SVG and PDF.
  • Insert a picture from the menu, paste it, or drop the file on the page.
  • Every figure has a title and a caption, and a number that follows it.
  • Drag the grips of a picture to resize it; its size is a share of the text width, the same in the PDF.
  • Figures can float to the top or the bottom of their page.
  • Figures, tables and diagrams in the column, in the margin, or wide.
  • Tables from a grid: point to the size and click.
  • Tab goes from cell to cell, and adds a row in the last one.
  • Insert and delete rows and columns, merge and split cells, a header row, lines above and below.
  • Tables have their own numbers, title and caption.
  • Formulas in the text and on a line of their own, in Typst’s readable math.
  • A live drawing of the formula as you type it, and a panel of fractions, roots, brackets, Greek and arrows.
  • Math blocks are numbered when something refers to them.
  • Diagrams of boxes and arrows from a few lines (fletcher), with a caption.
  • One button draws every formula and diagram at once, or opens them all.
  • Typst code in the text or as a block, for what no template has.

Notes, references and citations

  • Footnotes, which fold into an icon so they do not interrupt the text.
  • Margin notes, and each kind of note can become the other.
  • Cross-references to sections, figures, tables and equations, by name and number or by page.
  • References follow when what they point to moves; a click on one goes there.
  • Citations from a .bib file of Zotero, Mendeley or Google Scholar, which travels inside the document.
  • A search box over the entries of the bibliography.
  • IEEE, Vancouver, APA, Chicago, Harvard or MLA, chosen in a setting.
  • Table of contents, table of figures and table of tables, with their pages.
  • An index: mark a word, say its entry and what it goes under; sorted for the document’s language.

Reviewing

  • Comments for the writers, never in the PDF or the Word file.
  • All comments listed in the Outline, and resolved with one click.
  • Spelling checked as you type, in the language of the document, not in code nor formulas.
  • Words, characters and reading time, of the document and of the selection.
  • How many sections, figures, tables, footnotes and citations a document has.
  • Find with every match marked on the page and listed under its section.
  • Match case and whole words.
  • Replace one by one, or all at once in a single step you can undo.
  • Undo and redo everything: typing, conversions, moves, replacements.

Templates and styles

  • Document: Basic, Modern, Humble and Metropole.
  • Book: chapters, a title page, an abstract, and theorem, definition, example, exercise, tip and note boxes.
  • Book styles: LaTeXy, Orange, Kao, Ilm and Lambda.
  • Paper, in two columns as IEEE sets them.
  • Letter, CV, Exercises, Recipes, Novel and Notes.
  • Change the style with one click: the look changes, nothing else.
  • An example document of every template, with every piece it has.

The page

  • Typeset by Typst: hyphenation, ligatures, numbering, contents.
  • A4, Letter or A5, portrait or landscape, one or two columns.
  • Margins, page numbers, and a header with the title or the section.
  • Fonts, text size, line spacing, justified or ragged.
  • The language of the document sets spelling, hyphenation, quotes and the names in the PDF.
  • A book printed on two sides: chapters on the right-hand page, the wide margin outside.
  • A Preview of the PDF beside the text, made again a moment after each change.
  • The block of the cursor marked on the Preview; a click on a page goes to that place in the text.
  • Four views: Write, Focus, Side by side and Preview.
  • Page width and text zoom on the screen, which never change the document.
  • Thirteen editor themes, and a cursor of any color, or a rainbow.

Files

  • One .wombat file holds everything: the text, the pictures, the bibliography and the template.
  • Inside it is a zip of plain HTML, readable with no Wombat at all.
  • The browser tab keeps your document through a reload, with the cursor where it was.
  • A closed tab with unsaved changes can be recovered for a week.
  • PDF in one click.
  • Word (.docx) export with the structure, formats, lists, tables, pictures and notes.
  • Typst export with the pictures and the fonts, to set the document without Wombat.
  • Opens Word and Typst documents into the template of the window.
  • No account, and nothing about you is collected.

On a Mac

  • A Mac app, with the Menu in the title bar and the Mac’s own Outline.
  • Saves by itself, keeps its versions, and opens from the Finder.
  • Typst inside: no internet needed.
  • A Preview drawn by the Mac, sharp at any zoom, and printing.
  • A photo or a sketch from your iPhone or iPad, straight in as a figure.
  • Scan a printed page and Wombat reads its paragraphs, lists and tables.
  • Text read from a picture or a PDF you already have.
  • Spotlight finds documents by title, author and text.
  • Quick Look shows a document with the space bar; its icon is its first page.
  • Menus and panels in English, German, French or Spanish.