Open Source Text Editors
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MongoDB Atlas runs apps anywhereMongoDB Atlas gives you the freedom to build and run modern applications anywhere—across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. With global availability in over 115 regions, Atlas lets you deploy close to your users, meet compliance needs, and scale with confidence across any geography.
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AI-generated apps that pass security reviewRetool lets you generate dashboards, admin panels, and workflows directly on your data. Type something like “Build me a revenue dashboard on my Stripe data” and get a working app with security, permissions, and compliance built in from day one. Whether on our cloud or self-hosted, create the internal software your team needs without compromising enterprise standards or control.
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XML Copy Editor
XML editor
XML Copy Editor is a fast, free, validating XML editor. -
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Biber is a sophisticated bibliography processing backend for the LaTeX biblatex package. It supports a unsurpassed feature set for automated conformance to complex bibliography style requirements such as labelling, sorting and name handling. It has comprehensive Unicode support.
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TeXworks
A simple interface for working with TeX documents
TeXworks is a free and simple working environment for authoring TeX (LaTeX, ConTeXt and XeTeX) documents. Inspired by Dick Koch's award-winning TeXShop program for Mac OS X, it makes entry into the TeX world easier for those using desktop operating systems other than OS X. It provides an integrated, easy-to-use environment for users on other platforms particularly GNU/Linux and Windows and features a clean, simple interface accessible to casual and non-technical users. -
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Kile LaTeX Editor
Kile is a feature-rich LaTeX editor
Kile is a LaTeX editor, a TeX shell that simplifies the creation of LaTeX documents. -
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Library for reading Corel WordPerfect(tm) documents.
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libwps is a Microsoft Works file format import filter based on top of the librevenge (see https://sourceforge.net/p/libwpd/wiki/librevenge/ ). Currently, libwps can import all word processing Works formats since about 1995 with some success. It may also be able to import some basic database and spreadsheet files.
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TeXstudio - A LaTeX Editor
An integrated writing environment for creating LaTeX documents
NOTE: Active development has moved to https://github.com/texstudio-org/texstudio Please post issues and feature requests there. TeXstudio is a fully featured LaTeX editor. Our goal is to make writing LaTeX documents as easy and comfortable as possible. Some of the outstanding features of TeXstudio are an integrated pdf viewer with (almost) word-level synchronization, live inline preview, advanced syntax-highlighting, live checking of references, citations, latex commands, spelling and grammar. Find out more at our website. -
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A Swiss Army Knife GUI application for PDF documents: combine, split, rotate, reorder (n-up, booklet), watermark, edit bookmarks/fileinfo/pagetransition, compress, encrypt, decrypt, sign, repair, edit attachments and more.
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abnTeX
abnTeX está em novo endereço: http://www.abntex.net.br
ATENÇÃO: abnTeX está em novo endereço: http://www.abntex.net.br abnTeX is a set of LaTeX macros that follow the rules of ABNT (Brazilian Association of Technical Standards). ### abnTeX é um conjunto de macros LaTeX que segue as regras da ABNT (Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas). O projeto foi totalmente reconstruído baseado nas novas regras da ABNT e utilizando uma nova técnica para produção da classe, mais informações em: Portal do projeto: http://www.abntex.net.br Grupo de desenvolvedores: http://groups.google.com/group/abntex2 Esta página no SourceForge contém os ativos do projeto original, hospedados originalmente no portal CodigoLivre.org -
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XSLT syntax highlighting
Java based XSLT Processor extension for syntax highlighting
Please note that project moved to GitHub: https://github.com/xmlark/xslthl This is an implementation of syntax highlighting as an extension module for XSLT processors (Xalan, Saxon), so if you have e.g. article about programming written in DocBook, code examples can be automatically syntax highlighted during the XSLT processing phase. -
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QXmlEdit
Simple XML editor and XSD viewer
QXmlEdit is a simple XML editor written in qt. Its main features are unusual data visualization modes, nice XML manipulation and presentation and it is multi platform. It can split very big XML files into fragments, compare XML and XSD files, and has a graphical XSD viewers. Project site: http://qxmledit.org Source code hosted at GitHub (moved from Google Code) https://github.com/lbellonda/qxmledit Report issues at: https://github.com/lbellonda/qxmledit/issues Discussion group: https://groups.google.com/group/qxmledit-discuss -
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Biblatex is a LaTeX package which provides full-featured bibliographic facilities
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Pix2Text
Open-Source Python3 tool for recognizing layouts, tables, and math
An Open-Source Python3 tool for recognizing layouts, tables, math formulas, and text in images, converting them into Markdown format. A free alternative to Mathpix, empowering seamless conversion of visual content into text-based representations. 80+ languages are supported. Pix2Text (P2T) aims to be a free and open-source Python alternative to Mathpix, and it can already accomplish Mathpix's core functionality. Pix2Text (P2T) can recognize layouts, tables, images, text, and mathematical formulas, and integrate all of these contents into Markdown format. P2T can also convert an entire PDF file (which can contain scanned images or any other format) into Markdown format. -
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RecordEditor
Editor for Fixed Width, Csv and Existing Xml files.
The RecordEditor is a Data File editor for Flat Files (delimited and fixed field position). It supports Unix / PC / Legacy (e.g. Mainframe) file formats, both Text and binary files. The Editor uses a Record-Layout description to format the files. This is ideal for Fixed width (Text or Binary) files, Cobol Data Files, Mainframe files and complicated Csv files. Cobol Copybooks can be used to format Cobol Data files. As well as an editor, The following utilities are supplied * Formatted Compare * File Copy and reformat Utility * FileWizard this is use to work out the format of a File. It can generally find both Text and binary / packed deicimal fields in a file For Simple Csv you should look at its sister project reCsvEditor. Note: The core Editor code is also used in the "Protocol buffers editor" and "Avro Editor" -
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iText®, a JAVA PDF library
PDF Library for Developers
iText is an open-source PDF library available for Java and .NET (C#). iText allows you to effortlessly generate and manipulate standards-compliant PDF documents with a powerful and feature-rich SDK. With iText, you can create archivable and accessible PDFs, split and merge documents, fill and flatten forms, digitally sign documents, and more. iText add-ons enable additional functionality, such as PDF creation from HTML templates, secure redaction, OCR, and much more. The latest versions of iText build on the success of previous versions and feature an improved document engine, high and low-level programming capabilities, and a more efficient modular structure. iText represents the next level for developers looking to leverage PDF in document workflows. The main project page for iText is now on GitHub, and all the latest releases, code samples, open source add-ons and tools, etc. can be found at https://github.com/itext/. -
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reCsvEditor
Editor for simple (only one record type) Csv Files.
Editor for both Csv files and Fixed width files. There is automatic attribute detection for single record Csv Files. You can edit Fixed Width file and Multi-Record Csv / Fixed width files using a Xml Schema. There is also limited editing available for Xml and PO files. -
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XML Editor/Validator/Designer with CAMV
CAM XML Editor for XML+JSON+Hibernate+SQL Open-XDX sponsored by Oracle
The CAM editor is the leading open source XML Editor/Validation/Schema toolset for rapidly building / deploying XML /JSON /Hibernate /SQL data /Forms applications. Visual WYSIWYG data design, rule entry wizards + drag & drop dictionary components. Will import, analyze / refactor from XML Schema / JSON. Oracle is a proud enterprise sponsor; with NIEM.gov support. Do SQL data import/map+ Open Data API delivery+ Hibernate JPA + UI Forms/Pencil Makes XSD schema (default, flatten, NIEM, & OASIS modes) + JAXB bindings; Mindmap FreeMind or UML models(XMI); XML unit test & live SQL data; HTML docs + spreadsheets (NIEM IEPDs). Canonical component dictionaries from schema sets, SQL, JSON, ERwin XSD, or spreadsheets. The XML CAM templates (OASIS standard) store the exchange structure, content model, code lists, DBMappings, SQL lookups+business rules (XPath). Java CAMV XML/JSON validation engine is a complete exchange test framework [XMLUnit, TEAM(Schematron)]. Java/Eclipse +Saxon/XSL -
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The DITA Open Toolkit is an implementation of the OASIS DITA XML Specification. The Toolkit transforms DITA content into many deliverable formats. See https://www.dita-ot.org/ for documentation and links to downloads. The source code and issue trackers have been moved to https://github.com/dita-ot/dita-ot
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Canorus
Music score editor
Canorus is a free cross-platform music score editor. It supports an unlimited number and length of staffs, polyphony, a MIDI playback of notes, chord markings, lyrics, import/export filters to formats like MIDI, MusicXML, ABC Music, MusiXTeX and LilyPond -
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Writer2LaTeX and Writer2xhtml is a collection of converters from OpenDocument Format (ODF) to LaTeX/BibTeX, HTML+MathML and EPUB. It is delivered as a standalone java library, as a command line application and as extensions for LibreOffice.
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Editor.md
The open source embeddable online markdown editor (component)
The open source embeddable online markdown editor (component), based on CodeMirror & jQuery & Marked. The available dependents are CodeMirror, marked, jQuery, FontAwesome, github-markdown.css, KaTeX, prettify.js, Rephael.js, flowchart.js, sequence-diagram.js, and Prefixes.scss. You can enable HTML tags decode, TeX, Flowchart, sequence diagram, Emoji, FontAwesome, task lists. You can also enable image upload, [TOCM], search replace features, code fold, etc. Combine multiple JS module files used by CodeMirror to greatly reduce HTTP requests and speed up downloading. In addition, when using Require.js, because of CodeMirror's strict module dependency restrictions, the merged module files cannot be used, and multiple module files are still dynamically loaded. Newly added images, links, anchor links, code blocks, pre-formatted text and other operations pop-up dialog layers and examples. -
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Create beautiful song books for your church or fellowship using this LaTeX package and related tools.
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The main goal of the Office Binary (doc, xls, ppt) Translator to Open XML Project is to create software tools, plus guidance, showing how a document written using the Binary Formats (doc, xls, ppt) can be translated to Office Open XML.
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VisualMathEditor
LaTeX, AscciMath and MathML editor developed in Javascript and HTML
Visual Math Editor New Version “ It now offers more than 730 LaTeX symbols and 210 AsciiMath symbols. It now works in all modern browsers without plugin. It now works with LaTeX, AsciiMath, MathML and HTML syntaxes. It improves the ergonomics of the user interface.” VisualMathEditor is a LaTeX, AsciiMath and MathML editor developed in Javascript and HTML. It operates independently on the web or locally. It has many features and menus that help the equation-entry and allow their posting and backup. Formulas : - math physics symbols - operation symbols - logical symbols - arrows symbols - relation symbols - bracket symbols - differential symbols - functions symbols - integral symbols - matrix symbols - sqrt & frac symbols - sub & sup symbols - sum & prod symbols - greek characters -
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Text Encoding Initiative
TEI produces the TEI Guidelines and associated software
The TEI is an international and interdisciplinary standard used by libraries, museums, publishers, and academics to represent all kinds of literary and linguistic texts, using an encoding scheme that is maximally expressive and minimally obsolescent.
