New 12 months, new World Anvil upgrades! And for this primary one, we’ve improved the our textual content editors to offer you a fair higher writing and enhancing expertise.
What’s the replace about?
So, most of you recognize that World Anvil has two textual content editors—the Visible Editor and the Superior Editor:
- The Visible Editor is a straightforward however highly effective editor, nice for writing and formatting rapidly and simply with out worrying about superior options. Be taught extra.
- The Superior Editor (a.okay.a. Euclid) makes use of BBCode, permitting you to create advanced and delightful layouts, nevertheless it’s extra sophisticated for newbies. Be taught extra.
Currently, we’ve been engaged on making these two editors extra built-in (reminiscent of including an editor switcher on to articles), and as a part of that work, the Euclid editor was quickly solely out there in Superior Edit whereas we did some transitioning work.
BUT NOW… beginning at this time, we’ve launched the Superior Editor again into the Edit interface (previously known as Fast Edit)! So in case your world is ready to make use of Superior Editor by default, the edit modal can even use it by default.
So what does this imply? Nicely, faster entry to the superior capabilities and formatting instantly from the common edit of your articles! And naturally, a greater worldbuilding movement for those who’re utilizing the Advance Editor in your articles.
…however wait, there’s extra!
The Superior Editor itself has additionally been upgraded! It’s similar to the earlier one, however you’ll discover some visible enhancements, in addition to a flowery new find-and-replace choice!
For now, the brand new model of the Superior Editor is just out there within the Edit UI, however the Superior Edit interface can even see these enhancements coming at a later date.
Are there extra modifications you wish to see?
We’re ALWAYS studying your suggestions (go away us suggestions through our Assist web page) and Characteristic Requests (make a Characteristic Request right here!), so if there’s one thing else you’d wish to see, tell us! The entire World Anvil workforce is passionate (and barely feral) relating to making your worldbuilding expertise even higher.
So by no means be afraid to tell us what’s working for you, and what’s not!
BTW: Some small title modifications
And since we’re on the topic, you may need observed some barely completely different names for some buttons across the web site, just lately. As the web site evolves and we develop new options, we want to ensure the phrases we use to explain issues are nonetheless… nicely, descriptive!
- Fast Edit is now merely referred to as Edit.
- Full Edit has been renamed to Superior Edit.
- Viewing articles as a modal (for instance, from the search widget) is now not known as “Preview”, however “View“.
- “View in World” takes you to the Presentation Mode, so you may see how your article appears to be like to others.
- The Euclid editor’s most important title is now Superior Editor.
That is all in an effort to make the completely different choices within the web site simpler to know, for each new and veteran customers alike! Should you’re ever uncertain about what a function does, check out the Be taught part—we have now a information for each single function on the platform!
What different modifications would you wish to see on World Anvil in 2025? Tell us within the feedback!
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