Open Source Text Editors

Ayaspell project aims to provide arabic dictionaries for free office applications like OpenOffice.org, Firefox: spellchecking (hunspell-ar), thesaurus (thesaurus-ar) and Morphological lexicon (Grammar-ar). Maintained by Taha Zerrouki.

Biblatex is a LaTeX package which provides full-featured bibliographic facilities

Calc2LaTeX is an OpenOffice.org Calc (Spreadsheet) macro for converting tables. It makes making tables on LaTeX very easy.

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

DrPython is a highly customizable cross-platform ide to aid programming in Python. It was developed with teaching in mind, and has a clean, simple interface. It is written in Python, using wxPython as the gui.

Docear (pronounced dog-ear) is what we call an “academic literature suite”. It integrates everything you need to search, organize and create academic literature in a single application: a digital library, reference manager, PDF and file manager, note taking and mind mapping. And the best: Docear works seemlessly with many existing tools like Mendeley, Microsoft Word, and Foxit Reader. Docear is free and open source, based on Freeplane, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Technology and developed by scientists from around the world, among others from OvGU, and the University of California, Berkeley.

This is a free and open-source style and grammar checker forked from Languagetool. This project intends to be a full-blown software editor for French, English, German, Spanish, Portuguese and many other languages that enhances LanguageTool with extended rules — with emphasis on style rules —, and enables many rules disabled by default on LanguageTool project. Other changes include lower reliance on online mechanisms and extra languages. --- Este é um verificador de gramática e estilo gratuito e de código-fonte aberto, bifurcado do Languagetool. Este projeto pretende ser um editor de software completo para francês, inglês, alemão, espanhol, português e muitos outros idiomas; ampliando o conjunto regras do LanguageTool — com forte ênfase nas regras de estilo —, e activando muitas regras inactivas por padrão no projeto anterior. Outras mudanças incluem suporte para português de Portugal pré-Acordo Ortográfico e menos dependências online.

The objective of the OpenBerg Project is to develop Open-Source, Open-Standards-based, Multi-Platform tools for eBook authors, editors and users. We are currently working on OpenBerg Lector, an e-Book reader, and OpenBerg Rector, an e-Book compiler.

Dictator is a program for reading text files by Rapid Serial Visual Projection.

NAT is a free universal Braille translator. It supports French Braille grade 1, mathematical Braille, Braille layout and reverse transcription. French Braille grade 2, music and other languages are currently under development.

PerlPoint generates presentation slides, docs, brochures and more from an easy to learn but powerful text format. It allows distributed team documentation and can be extended to produce any target format you like.

Mathematics formula renderer for Microsoft Word. Easy to use and really fast + Mathematics drawing toolbar for Microsoft Word + Math exercices storage Database for Microsoft Access. Available in French and English!!!

Collection of tools for input, reading, processing, and typesetting Taiwanese language. Includes SCIM and quail input methods, Firefox dictionary plugin, plus scripts for LaTeX and HTML generation.

WebDjVuTextEd allows to edit the text layer of OCR'ed DjVu documents in a web browser. You can modify the structure (paragraphs, lines, words...) create, delete, edit text nodes, modify their container box by mouse, and run a spellchecker. The program does not directly read the DjVu files, it requires exported XML text data and images. When using without a webserver, you can open and save local files, but cannot take advantages of auto-save and spell checking. Note that current SVN version has much more features than V1.0!

Visual XML editor. 100% pure TCL/TK application.

Create Keymaps with up to 3433 characters of Unicode 4.1 each. Easily write texts and emails in many ancient scripts (Ancient Greek, Aramaic, Coptic, Cypriot Syllabogram, Etruscan, Hebrew, Old Persian, Phoenican, Ugaritic). Soon: Linear A & B, Luwian...

An experimental file reader, useful for people interested in speed-reading. There are several modes for mirroring characters, words or lines.

OmniHelp is a cross-platform, browser-independent, tri-pane help viewer built in pure JavaScript and CSS with HTML 4. Some functions (such as help embedding) may in the future be in Java, C, or C++; CSH is fully supported. All code is under the LGPL.

Thetis is a Java (OS-independent) application written to allow the linguistic and statistical analysis of the Homeric and Hesiodic Epic. Current achievement is the creation of a complete (and free) Thesaurus of the Homeric and Hesiodic poems.

Adapt is data conversion language developped in 1984 by Norman W. Molhant and Christophe Dupriez. It has been used in many circumstances, it translated itself in many programming environment and it should evolve now toward modern environments like Java.

Alexandria.bib is a bibliography groupware web managment system. It manages the content of LaTex .bib files and share bibliography between users. It is written in java.

AnissTranslator is the open source development of Hebrew and spoken arabic online translation. It is devleoped by the peace-seeking Aniss organization and intended to be used by web applications or as a standalone php package

This software will help you to get rid of the arabic diacritics like single and double Fatha, Damma and Kasra as well as the Chadda.

This software is an experimental visual file reader, useful e.g. for people interested in speed-reading and brain-training.

Project has moved to https://github.com/DistributedProofreaders/dproofreaders Distributed Proofreaders is a web application intended to ease the process of converting public domain books and other printed materials into e-texts. The main site is at http://www.pgdp.net By breaking the work into individual pages, many proofreaders can be working on the same book at the same time. This significantly speeds up the proofreading/E-Text creation process. When a proofer elects to proofread a page for a particular project, the text and image file are displayed on a single webpage. This allows the text file to be easily reviewed and compared to the image file, thus assisting the proofreading of the text file. The edited text is then submitted back to the site via the same webpage that it was edited on. Once all pages for a particular book have been processed, a concatenated text file is made available for final clean-up and submitted to a Project Gutenberg site.