Writing

The editor

Everything the rich-text editor can do — quick lookup, sentence swap, snapshots, focus mode.

The page

Vellerune’s editor is shaped like a novel page. The text column has a comfortable measure (49rem max), generous margins, and serif type by default, with a thin toolbar across the top.

Open settings from the gear icon in the top-right of the app. Font family, line height, and zoom are all set under the Editor tab, alongside auto-indent, remember-cursor-position, and the snapshot controls described below.

Formatting in prose

Inside scenes, the available formatting is intentionally restricted. Books generally don’t need lists or blockquotes — they’re not part of a standard manuscript — so the prose toolbar leaves them out.

In Notes, the full toolbar is enabled — headings, lists, blockquotes, indentation, the works.

Quick lookup

The single most-used tool while writing. Press L on any word in your prose and the side panel opens with every match across:

• Characters (including aliases)
• Locations
• Magic systems
• Glossary entries
• Built-in dictionary
• Built-in thesaurus

You can also open the panel from the toolbar and search any term manually.

Sentence swap

↑ and ↓ move the sentence under your cursor up or down. The whole sentence — including its trailing punctuation and the whitespace after it — moves as a unit. It’s the fastest way to revise paragraph flow without selecting and pasting.

The same actions are available as up/down icons in the editor toolbar.

Focus mode

Click the focus icon in the toolbar for a fullscreen view of just the page. Press Esc to leave it.

Automatic snapshots

While you write, Vellerune captures point-in-time snapshots of every scene in the background. Each snapshot can be diffed against the current version with a rich-text diff that preserves formatting changes (italics added, paragraphs reformatted, formatting removed), and you can restore to any snapshot at any time.

From the gear icon in the top-right, the Editor tab lets you configure the snapshot interval and how many revisions are kept. The defaults are a new snapshot every 5 minutes of editing and 10 revisions kept per scene.

Per-scene goals

In the editor’s bottom-right corner, click the goal icon to set a target word count for the scene you’re in. Once set, the current percentage shows next to the icon as you type and turns green when you hit 100%. Click the icon again to see a progress bar with X / Y words, or to change or clear the target. Useful for pacing — set a target like “this scene should land at about 1,200 words” — or for breaking a chapter target down into per-scene chunks.