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Fixed it. Thanks for reporting.

I have been able to install MiniWord under Windows. It is a bit more challenging. You should use cairocffi instead of pycairo: pip install cairocffi You also need to install the Ca…

I came from the TeX-Approach where all layout elements are boxes which contain other boxes. This box-tree is a kind of DOM if you want. But the box-tree only represents the layout,…

When you want to develop cross platform apps which use the native widgets, there are not so many options. The two big players are qt and wx.

Yes, I can see what you mean: There are hand coded colors together with system colors. With the dark mode this gives white text on white background for the side panel. Thanks for m…

Cursor positioning is simple. The layout is a tree of nested box. Each box knows the x,y-position of its children. There is also an index dimension which numbers possible cursor po…

Ropes are for strings. In a word processor you need text with formatting, and structures as tables, images and math.

My mistake. Now it works (on linux).

My apologies. I added the missing file.

Hi all, Finding a good data structure for a word processor is a difficult problem. My notebook diaries on the problem go back 25 years when I was frustrated with using Word for my …

Finding a good data structure for a word processor is a difficult problem. My notebook diaries on the problem go back to 2001 when I was frustrated with using Word, which was at th…

You're right that hidden structure is often the cause of strange effects — but Group is not a document element in that sense. It's invisible at the index level too: when you iterat…

I've built a rich text data model for a desktop word processor in Python, based on a persistent balanced n-ary tree with cached weights for O(log n) index translation. The document…