Editor Customization and Settings

Change the theme, fonts and layout, and find the project and account settings.

Editor appearance lives in the View menu. Project and account options live in the Settings dialog.

The View menu

Layout

  • Put the right panel on the side, at the bottom, or hide it.
  • Swap Panes exchanges the editor and preview positions.
  • Sidebar and Assistant Sidebar show or hide the two sidebars.

Editor

  • Font Family: Iosevka, Default (Monaco/Menlo), Fira Code, JetBrains Mono, Source Code Pro, IBM Plex Mono, OpenDyslexic Mono or OpenDyslexic.
  • Font Size: 10px to 24px.
  • Word Wrap: off, at 80, 100 or 120 characters, or at window width.
  • Line Numbers: show, every 5th line, or hide.

Theme

Choose Light Mode or Dark Mode.

Toggles

These switch on and off. The menu shows each current state.

  • Minimap: an overview of the file on the right edge of the editor.
  • Smooth Scrolling
  • Typewriter Mode
  • Dyslexia-Friendly Font
  • Show Invisible Characters
  • Sentence Focus

The status bar at the bottom of the editor also has buttons for font size, word wrap, the minimap, and spell check.

Spell check

Click the spell check button in the status bar to open Spell Check. There you can turn spell checking on and choose a dictionary. The document language for a project is set separately in Project Settings under General.

Settings dialog

Open File then Project Settings. The sidebar of the dialog has two groups.

Account settings apply to all of your projects:

  • Build
  • Formatting
  • AI, with the Style, Rigour, Tools, Local AI Server and BYOK pages

This Project settings apply to the open project:

  • General: project name, description, target venue or class, document language and submission deadline.
  • Build: main file, build renderer, automatic recompile after edits, LaTeX engine, bibliography passes and PDF standard.
  • Formatting: tidy-up rules that run when you click Recompile. They never run on the automatic preview while you type.
  • Provenance: whether to track authorship for the project.

The project dialog also has Share, GitHub and Zotero pages.

AI settings

The AI assistant has its own settings, including local models and your own API keys. See AI agent settings and Using Ollama.

See alsoAI Agent Settings·Using Ollama (local LLM)