TextFold 0.10.22

A reader to stay in: light or dark, a paper style, your line spacing, the place you left, and the text alone when you want it.

Light or dark, and a style

Aa, at the top of the reader, now begins with two choices that go together:

• Appearance: your system's, light or dark.
• Style: the default, or paper, a warm unbleached page that is quieter than white, with warm black ink and a softer highlight. Paper has a dark side too: a warm grey-brown page with cream letters.

The sidebar and the landing take the same colours. A print stays light.

Line spacing

Aa also sets the line spacing: tight, standard or loose, for the author's words and the written levels alike. Like the size and the font, it holds for every text.

Back where you left off

A text opens again at the level and the paragraph where you stopped reading it, and says so, with From the start beside it. A link to a place (from Obsidian, say) still opens that place. A thin line under the top bar shows how far in you are.

Focus

Press F (or Focus in Aa): the top bar, the zoom bar, the sidebar and the chat move off, and the text is alone on the screen. Each comes back while the pointer is at its edge; on a touch screen, a touch at the edge brings it back for a moment. F or Esc ends it.

A sidebar beside the text

The pin at the top of the sidebar keeps it open beside the text, as on the landing, instead of over it. The page, the zoom bar and a PDF beside the text make room for it, and in a window too narrow for the notes in the margins as well, they move into the column, as beside the PDF.

Also

• In a narrow window or on a phone, the links between paragraphs no longer make the page wider than the screen: a long label ends in "…".

Download

Your computer	File
Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later)	TextFold-mac-arm64.dmg
Mac with an Intel processor	TextFold-mac-x64.dmg
Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit	TextFold-win-x64-setup.exe

Which Mac? Apple menu › About This Mac shows Chip Apple M… or Processor Intel.

The Mac apps are signed and notarized by Apple. The Windows app is not signed yet. The first time you open it, Windows asks: choose More info, then Run anyway.

Already using TextFold 0.10.2 or later? The app offers this version by itself, or check from the menu (TextFold › Check for Updates… on a Mac, Help › Check for Updates… on Windows).

The Python package

python3 -m pip install -U textfold

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