Tour

Lets begin out tour of Scripta with a few screen shots.

  • Home screen. This is is where you land when you go to Scripta.io, and it is where you sign in to your account or sign up for a new account.

  • Header. The main buttons for controling the app:

  • Footer. More buttons: print to PDF, export to standard LaTeX, etc.

  • Working with documents: view, create, and edit a document

  • Kinds of documents

Home screen

The home screen of Scripta.io, pictured below, is where you sign up for a new account or sign in to an existing account. Items which are underlined are links to other resources.

Landing page

Most of the buttons and links in the header of Scripta.io are self-explanatory. If you hover over a button, you will see a short explanation of what it does.

Header, browse mode

Reading across the bottom row of the header are (1) the current markup language (click to change if need be); (2) the open/close editor button; (3,4,5) the new document section: Doc for a standard document, Folder for a smart folder, Collection for a collection of other documents; (6) the author of the current document; (7) Share: edit the users who share a document; (8) Tags a list of document tags; (9) Chat: open up a chat channel; (10) Bug icon: open up the bug reporter chat channel; (11) Red/green square: indicate status of Scripta.io connection.

When the editor is open, you see some additional buttons: (1) Public/Private: toggle between public and private mode. A public document can be seen by anyone, a private document only by its author or users with whom the document has been shared.

Header, edit mode

The first three buttons of the footer, reading from left to write are for exporting documents in one form or another: (1) Export: export to ready-to-process standard LaTeX; (2) Raw: export the body of the document to standard LaTeX; (3) PDF: export to PDF.

Then we have (4) the document status (Read only/Can edit). Clicking on this button toggles between the two alternatives; (5) the most recent system message; (6) Link: if the document is public, display a link to it; (7) DocTools: information and tools for the current document.

Footer

Viewing a document

First is the normal "browsing" mode. In the image below you see two windows. On the left is the document Wave Packets and the Dispersion Relation. On the right is the list of current documents. These documents were found by typing "wave" in the search box. Three documents were found. If you had typed "wave pack" then just one document, Wave Packets and the Dispersion Relation would have been found.

Scripta in view mode

Creating a document

To create a document, click on the Doc button in the New section of the header and fill out the form you see below. If need be, change the markup language. The title must be at least three letters long.

New document form

Editing a document

If you want to edit the current document — the one in the left-hand window – clickn on the Open Editor button. Looking at the image above, you will find it in the top left part of the app. When you click on that button, you go into editing mode, and the app will look like what you see in the image below.

Scripta in edit mode

Kinds of documents

We have just described the basic Scripta document. There are two other kinds: