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Introducing ThoughtWriter: a complete set of programs to help you write stuff. The main focus is fiction, although you can use it for other things as well: writing letters, for instance.

ThoughtWriter is the combination of Edit4, which is based on Edit3, but utilizes Verbose¹, and ThoughtType4, a simple file format and markup language, vaguely inspired by Wiki markup languages. If you have the spell4py module installed (which is a Python binding for Hunspell, the spell checker included in Firefox 3 and OpenOffice.org), you can enable automatic spell checking.

Also included are a set of small programs (conveniently called in Edit4 by pressing Ctrl+P):

• tt42pdf; prints your ThoughtType4 file to PDF.
• tt42html; converts the document to HTML.
• tt42rtf; converts to Rich Text Format.
• tt42tex; converts to TeX.
• tt42txt; converts to plain text, formatted to be suitable to view in a terminal.

If you like the ThoughtType4 format and the tt42* converters, but don't want to (or can't) use Edit4: I have written a syntax file for nano. You can download it here.

Recommendation:
Current version: 0.0
Written in: Python
User interface: GUI
Dependencies: Python, wxPython (only for source)
Recommended: spell4py (only for source)
Total executable size: +/- 15 MB
Total source size: +/- 42 KB
Total source distribution size: +/- 78 KB
Platform: All²
Licence: GPLv3(?)

Coming soon.

For Windows
Source (requires Python 2.4 or 2.5 and wxPython 2.8.7, not tested with other versions)
GitHub repository

¹ Verbose is an editing component (basically Scintilla), which supports different fonts, for a better WYSIWYG experience. See included documentation for more information on Verbose.
² It will probably not run on OSX. I have not tested it, and never will. If you made the necessary Mac-specific modification, please send me a patch.