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substance/texture

A visual editor for research. observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/substance/texture · JavaScript · MIT (permissive) 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

Full methodology

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

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
substance/texturemain57

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="substance/texture")

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