This Visual Editor is a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor based on the popular CKEditor 5.
The most important controls of the Visual Editor are shown in the screenshot:
- Page Title
- Save button bar:
- Saved / Save button. If it says Saved, there are no changes; if it says Save click to make the changes permanent. Pages don’t auto-save so don’t forget to save frequently!
- Button Page: allows you to re-modify the metadata of the page, such as the title, description, and tags.
- Close button: when you are done with the page, close here to return to reading mode.
- Saved / Save button. If it says Saved, there are no changes; if it says Save click to make the changes permanent. Pages don’t auto-save so don’t forget to save frequently!
- Format button bar. Select a text and click to apply or position the cursor to insert. The options are (from left to right):
- Headers
- Font size
- Font family
- Bold (CTRL + B)
- Italics (CTRL + I)
- Underline (CTRL + U)
- Strikethrough (CTRL + SHIFT + X)
- Subscript
- Superscript
- Mark text with colors / Clear markup
- Text alignment
- Numbered list
- Unnumbered list
- To do list with check boxes
- Insert special character
- Insert link to another Urantiapedia page using wizard
- Insert link to any page (CTRL + L)
- Quotes
- Insert image
- Insert table
- Code style
- Code block
- Insert video
- Horizontal line
- Remove formatting (not yet available)
- Undo (CTRL + Z)
- Redo (CTRL + Y)
¶ Future functionality
Some important actions of the editor are not implemented yet and will be done in the near future:
- Insertion of footnotes
- Auto-links in references to The Urantia Book or The Bible.
- Different types of blocks in the style of a quote.
- Mathematical expressions.
- Diagrams using the
Draw.ioeditor.