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Wit 0.2.0

Wit 0.2.0

Wit 0.2.0 is out for Windows, macOS and Linux.

What changed

  • Long titles set cleanly. A title that wraps onto two lines, on the title page or at a chapter opening, is no longer justified, so its words keep their normal spacing. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is the one that showed it.
  • Six sample books. Pride and Prejudice, A Christmas Carol, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland with John Tenniel’s illustrations, A Room of One’s Own, Die Verwandlung and a short screenplay adapted from Alice, all public domain and set in Wit. Wit opens them the first time you start it, so you can look around before you write a word. They are also on this site as PDFs.

What is in Wit today

Wit is a free, open-source writing app for books, essays, screenplays and stage plays. You write plain text, Markdown for books and Fountain for scripts, and Wit lays it out as the pages of a printed book beside you.

  • A quiet writing space: Write, Split and Page modes, Focus mode, light, dark and true-black themes.
  • A command palette (Ctrl+Shift+P) with every command and setting, each with its shortcut.
  • Chapters and statistics sidebars, with word and page targets.
  • Revisions: named drafts kept for good, one copy per writing day between them, and a Changes view.
  • Page setup with templates for novels, non-fiction, children’s books and manuscripts; every KDP paperback size, the UK and ISO sizes; ten open fonts plus the ones on your computer; a print checklist.
  • Print PDF, Proof PDF, and Word or OpenDocument manuscripts for an editor.
  • Screenplays and stage plays in Fountain, in the standard layout on US Letter or A4.
  • Eight languages for hyphenation and spell check.

Downloads

Every file, with its notes, is on the releases page. Found a problem? Open an issue.