About MaweJS Design

I added an issue to try out folding comments & synopses: https://github.com/mkoskim/mawejs/issues/147

While thinking that, I thought I could say a few words what have been my targets in the editor's generic outlook.

Take a look the preview, or export a story and read it as RTF. For me, that is how the editor should ideally look. It is just the draft itself. This is of course impossible - except for pantsers, but they use Word or similar as story editor anyways - because you need also have fluent access to story elements: parts, scenes, comments and synopses.

So, we need to have extra elements in the editor, but we are trying to make them as unintrusive as possible. Also, we like to hide unnecessary information, e.g. by folding.

We have quick access to story parts in the index. Parts and scenes serve also for that purpose, but they also make it possible to move text around. It is because it is specifically said, that parts and scenes are groups. The other elements you can get to index (synopses, missing text, comments) serve as "bookmarks".

The editor is split to different views: The sole idea is that in one view, you edit your story from certain perspective. For writers like me, in fact, one of the big things is to see your story from different view.

The problem comes here: each view should be interoperable to each other. It is not that when switching a view you should configure things, no, but in that view you continue editing your story, no matter in which phase it is.