# substance/texture

A visual editor for research.

Repository: https://github.com/substance/texture
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/substance-texture
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: publishing, xml, jats, javascript, editing
Last push: 2026-04-07T18:13:23+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 57/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 76, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3789, "days_push": 148, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1009, forks 85 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:12.887170+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: editor, ui-components, parser, markdown
- domain: text-editors, documentation, web-development
- platform: cross-platform, windows
- tags: jats, xml-editor, scientific-writing, dar-format, manuscript-editing, wysiwyg, academic-publishing, publishing, scientific-publishing, web-server, electron, desktop, nodejs, macos, linux

## Member repositories
- substance/texture (main) score 57

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:12.887170+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T07:12:04.585236+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/substance/texture (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:12.887170+00:00, sha 2988cf17f326)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.