Hagoromo

Posted by merrimanbt
Nov 13, 2018 at 04:02 AM

Please review if you try it. It looks like cool software.

satis wrote:
I was interested in what happened to Jedit, an old free text processor I
>found in my Applications folder that hadn’t been updated in years, and I
>discovered that aside from a new shareware version of the app (which
>froze on me when I tried closing an edited file and had to be
>Force-Quit), the developer also had a $17.99 writing app in the Mac App
>Store that does folding (as well as handling vertical writing),
>apparently oriented towards writing in ideographic text:
> >https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hagoromo/id865949654?mt=12
> >“Hagoromo: A rich text editor for editing Western and Japanese
>documents. Supports the outline processing that allows text to be
>organized into discrete sections that are related in a tree structure or
>hierarchy. Text may be collapsed into a node, or expanded and edited.
>Supports powerful search and replace functions and the latest OS X
>features such as iCloud, Full Screen, Auto-Save, Versions and more. A
>new text engine has been developed in order to bring light and smooth
>vertical text editing, and supports many functions which are specific to
>Japanese, such as genko-mode, ruby, tate-chu-yoko, kenten and so on.
>These features are difficult to be realized with the standard text
>engine NSTextView.”
> >The translation of the app on the dev’s site give a little more
>information: “Hagoromo is a rich text editor mainly for editing
>Japanese…. Using the outline processing function makes it possible to
>describe the details of each detail after deciding the rough whole
>structure of the sentence, which is very useful when creating long
>sentences. The outline hierarchy of Hagoromo is compatible with the list
>of rtf documents. If you display the Hagoromo document in a text edit,
>the outline hierarchy part will be displayed as a list and the list
>created by text edit will be displayed as outline hierarchy in Hagoromo
>as it is…. Because it is original text engine conscious of Japanese,
>vertical writing can be done lightly as it is.”
> >Unfortunately the screenshots are all in Japanese, so it’s hard to see
>how or if it might work for English speakers, or even if the app has any
>non-Japanese menu localizations (as Jedit does). Still, intriguing.