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.