TypeMetal 2.0
Device: Mac OS
Category: Productivity
Price: $19.99, Version: 1.2 -> 2.0 (iTunes)
Description:TypeMetal is a revolutionary visual (WYSIWYG) HTML editor that’s unlike any other writing tool on the App Store. Designed to be efficiently keyboard-navigable and produce modern, streamlined, professional-grade HTML with exacting precision, it’s both a serious structured writing app and an easy-to-use HTML notepad. Whether you’re a casual HTML novice or a demanding HTML expert who wants to be free to *just write*, TypeMetal will make your content authoring easier & more productive.
At the heart of TypeMetal’s groundbreaking approach is a custom HTML editing engine not seen anywhere else. TypeMetal presents fully-rendered HTML pages for live, in-place editing, and empowers you to inspect, grasp & manipulate your document’s structure directly. TypeMetal’s symbolic model understands each HTML page as a tree of live objects, enabling it to perform edits that challenge syntax-highlighting HTML markup editors.
“Block Mode” reveals your document’s structure, enabling you to select & manipulate otherwise invisible elements. Create structured documents using nested “section”, “article” and “div” containers, collapse heading-bearing containers to view pages in outline, and drag-&-drop to rearrange sections.
TypeMetal’s comprehensive, easily mastered keyboard shortcuts keep your fingertips on the keyboard and your mind on your ideas. Navigate your document’s structure, insert elements or wrap content, and edit attributes, all without having to skip a beat reaching for your mouse. Dedicated shortcuts instantly perform frequent tasks, such as applying emphasis or creating headings & lists. TypeMetal also makes linking a breeze, suggesting nearby files and remembering URLs you’ve recently copied to the pasteboard. Any URL in its completion list is just a few keystrokes away.
Copy & paste from browser windows without bringing clutter along for the ride. TypeMetal’s smart cleanup helps you distill clippings of overwrought or broken HTML to the essentials: automatically, as you paste or drag-&-drop. Use Block Mode, the Source Loupe and the Path Bar to inspect and further refine the results, yielding elegantly minimal markup.
“Snippet sets” help you codify your “class” & “id” naming conventions and consistently apply the resultant styling vocabularies. Leverage HTML’s designed-in semantic extensibility more effectively than ever, while preparing your writing to be flexibly, beautifully, & consistently styled using CSS. Snippet sets and the metadata that binds them to HTML files are designed for collaborative development. Share them easily, via a version tracking system or download, to help your team maintain common conventions. Even constrain authors to a subset of HTML if you like.
HTML formatting preferences control the appearance of your HTML with powerful simplicity. “Set it & forget it”, globally or per-file, then enjoy the ability to focus on your content and the ideas behind it, freed from the visual distraction of markup syntax & constant temptation to fiddle with formatting. TypeMetal puts your writing front & center, eliminating needless distractions, while its engine produces concise, consistently-formatted HTML markup you can proudly publish.
Other features:
- Mavericks-ready (runs on OS X 10.8 and 10.9)
- Retina-ready UI
- Whole-document validation & repair
- Use your own CSS files or one of TypeMetal’s 3 bundled HTML 5-ready stylesheets
- Automatic pretty quote & dash typography
- Image resampling & saving as JPEG, PNG
- Versatile Copy/Paste
- Text Magnification
- Text Find & Replace
- Check Spelling & Grammar
- Comprehensive Help
- HTML DOCTYPEs: HTML 5, 4.01 Strict+Transitional; XHTML 1.1, 1.0 Strict+Transitional
- HTML filename extensions: html, htm, xhtml, xhtm, xht, xml, shtml, shtm
Demo
coherencelabs.com/typemetal/try
User Guide
coherencelabs.com/typemetal/manual
Public Support Forum
coherencelabs.com/support
What's New
WordPress is here -- and it's a free update! TypeMetal 2 adds a complete Mac-native experience for publishing to your WordPress sites! (WordPress hosting required.)
TypeMetal's new WordPress projects provide for:
- Automatic sync with any WordPress.com-hosted or standard self-hosted WordPress installation
- Offline browsing, search, editing, and drafting of posts and pages, using a self-contained local copy of your WordPress content that TypeMetal keeps indexed and up to date
- The ability to edit content right in your rendered pages, using TypeMetal's revolutionary visual (WYSIWYG) HTML editor and your site's own theme
- An optional, uncluttered "Clear View" mode, that helps you focus on your content
- Truly easy pushbutton publishing, that automatically uploads needed images to your WordPress Media Library
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