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ghostwriter-25.12.3

distraction-free Markdown editor

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Description

ghostwriter is a Windows and Unix text editor for Markdown, providing a relaxing, distraction-free writing environment, whether your masterpiece be that next blog post, your school paper, or your NaNoWriMo novel. * Syntax highlighting of Markdown * Navigation of document headings * Full-screen mode * Focus mode that highlights the current sentence, line, three lines, or paragraph * Two built-in themes, one light and one dark * Theme creator for custom colors and background images * Spell checking with Hunspell * A Live word count * A live HTML preview as you type * Use of custom CSS style sheets for HTML preview * Image URL insertion via dragging and dropping an image file into the editor * Sundown processor built in for preview and export to HTML * Interoperability with the following Markdown processors (if installed) for preview and export to popular document formats, such as PDF, ODT, and RTF: * Pandoc * MultiMarkdown * Discount * cmark

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Ports path
editors/ghostwriter
Package architecture
amd64
Maintainer
The OpenBSD ports mailing-list <ports@openbsd.org>
Categories
editors
Available flavors
None listed
Only for architectures
aarch64, amd64, arm, i386, mips64, mips64el, powerpc, powerpc64, riscv64, alpha, hppa, sparc64

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