What is?

Nested is a specialized editor focused on creating structured documents such as reports, publications, presentations, books, etc. It is designed to help the user concentrate on writing content without been distracted by format or markup. It offers a rich WYSIWYM interface where the user writes plain text with a lightweight markup language.

Basic users are assisted with extensive examples, formatting buttons, a simple image gallery per document, assisted internal and external links, section based layout and easy publishing options in HTML, LaTeX or PDF. Power users will like the advanced pre-processing and post-processing options, advanced theming, version control systems compatibility, LaTeX formulas support, a complete set of keyboard shortcuts, among others.

Nested separates content from presentation and publishing option, so same content can be presented as a HTML web page, a rich standard-compliant HTML presentation, a IEEE journal publication, a beautiful PDF book, etc. Nested files are plain text so they can be used with common version control systems.

Nested was funded by the Comisión Nacional de Rectores (CONARE) with the support Universidad de Costa Rica, Universidad Nacional, Universidad Estatal a Distancia and Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica.

Features

• Free/Libre and Open Source Software under the GPL2+.
• Multiplatform: Runs on Ubuntu 11.10+ Oneric Ocelot GNU/Linux, Debian Wheezy GNU/Linux, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.
• Separation of content and presentation.
• Divide and conquer philosophy: every large document is composed of small documents.
• Easy navigation of the document tree, easy way to restructure the document via drag-and-drop interface.
• Automatic Table Of Contents (TOC) generation. User configurable depth.
• Automatic Numbering: Never number lists/topics/sections by hand anymore.
• Simple, uncomplicated and natural markup. Markup don't pollute the content. Learn it.
• Markup supports bold, italic, underline, ordered list, unordered lists, verbatim, links, images, tables, formulas, code block and others.
• Multiple publication types for the same content: presentation, book, scientific article, paper, report, webpage and other.
• Multiple publication formats for the same content: HTML, LaTeX, PDF and plain text.
• Code syntax highlight on all targets. See an example HTML, PDF.
• LaTeX formulas support and rendering on all targets. See an example HTML, PDF.
• Advanced theming on HTML target: header, footer, css and Javascript support.
• Extensive documentation and examples.
• Javascript libraries support on HTML target. Included libraries: SyntaxHighlighter, MathJax, jQuery, or install your own.
• Advanced configuration for LaTeX target.
• Advanced pre-processing and post-processing regex filters.
• Configurable automatic backup of the working file.
• "Concentration mode": Just write your content, without been distracted by anything (toggle with Shift+F11).
• Multilanguage: Avalaible in English and Spanish, and can be easily translated.

News

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 14:18:28 -0600

Bug-fix release Nested 1.2.2:

• Publishing time reduced thanks to optimization of the footnotes preprocessor.
• LaTeX abstract is correctly formatted now. Thanks to David Narvaez for the report.

Sun, 18 Dec 2011 02:58:19 -0600

New release Nested 1.2:

• Footnotes support! Works great, but it lags a bit the publishing process :(
• Several small bugs corrected.
• Corrected a bug that prevented the last child of any subsection to be deleted.
• Corrected a bug that prevented from rendering PDF when a code block with option is present (e.g: C-Sharp block).
• Corrected a bug that prevented to save a file (Save as) to the same folder where the source file was.
• Corrected a bug that prevented from loading filters for all the targets but the last.
• Linebreak filters are now a pre-filters, not post-filters, so they should play nice with other txt2tags markup.
• Image positioning is working now.
• The website was added to the Nested repository.
• Help menu now links to that documentation.
• .t2t file association on Windows.
• User is now able to easily find the Nested user folder.

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:05:19 -0600

New website! Finally some documentation can be found in the Learn section.

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 02:55:01 -0600

New release Nested 1.1:

• Compatible with Windows Vista and Windows XP.
• Bundled examples can now be translated and presented to the user in his native language.

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 01:03:27 -0600

First stable release is out: Nested 1.0. Thanks to all the people that helped with the testing.