substance/texture
A visual editor for research. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
57/100
- Activity 76
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 3789
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 148
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1009 stars · 85 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Texture is a visual editor for producing scientific content, built on the DAR format which is a stricter subset of the JATS XML standard. It runs as a web application and is also packaged as an Electron desktop app for editing scholarly manuscripts.
Use cases
- edit JATS XML manuscripts visually
- author scientific articles without writing XML
- convert and edit academic papers in DAR format
- produce journal-ready scientific content
- edit scholarly documents on desktop
When to choose
- you need a WYSIWYG editor for JATS-based scientific articles
- you work in academic publishing with XML workflows
- you want a desktop or web editor for structured scholarly documents
When to avoid
- you need a general-purpose text or code editor
- your documents are not JATS/DAR compatible
- you need a full document management or publishing pipeline
Facets
application · maturity maintenance
editor ui-components parser markdown text-editors documentation web-development cross-platform windows jats xml-editor scientific-writing dar-format manuscript-editing wysiwyg academic-publishing publishing scientific-publishing web-server electron desktop nodejs macos linux
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/substance/texture · fetched 2026-08-28 · 2988cf17f326
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| substance/texture | main | 57 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="substance/texture")
Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00 · Report a problem