Currently, Ellipsus supports basic text formatting. Just open a document and click on Format in the right-hand sidebar (It will look like a capital T) to open the formatting panel.

The formatting panel enables you to:

Right now, any text styling (like font, font weight, and spacing) will be applied globally to all text matching the selected paragraph style. For instance, if you’ve selected text that uses an H1 paragraph style, any changes to font size or line spacing would be applied to all other H1s in your main document or current draft.

We currently offer 15 different fonts: Baskerville, Caveat, Comic Neue, Courier Prime, EB Garamond, Inter, Literata, Merriweather, Montserrat, Open Dyslexic, Raleway, Redacted Script, Sylexiad Serif, and Ubuntu Mono.

You can also set the line height, letter spacing, word spacing, and paragraph spacing for each paragraph style. Just open the Format panel and open the spacing dropdown in the Text section. You can use the plus or minus signs to adjust spacing or type in a number to set it manually.

Under the Style section, you’ll see additional options for formatting text or adding emphasis. Options include:

You can change choose whether text is left-aligned, center-aligned, right-aligned, or justified. By default, changes to alignment will apply to the selected paragraph; if you’d like to apply alignment changes to your entire document (or draft), simply select all text using your mouse (or ⌘ + A / Ctrl + A) and then click on one of the alignment icons.

For a full list of keyboard shortcuts, refer to the shortcuts panel — available from the keyboard icon in the expanded right-hand panel.

If you regularly use markdown while writing, you’ll be pleased to see we support several common formatting options.

Throughout our beta (and beyond) we’ll continue to improve the text editor and add more formatting options. Visit our ideas board to upvote existing feature ideas or add your own.