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Thank you for sharing this on HN. Just wanted to add our introduction blog post, which may clarify some of the questions asked here.

https://medium.com/@_mql/build-your-own-editor-with-substanc...

And some usage examples:

Scientific Writing - http://substance.io/lens - https://github.com/Coko-Foundation/pubsweet-core Spreadsheet Software - https://stenci.la/demo/sheets/iris Digital Archives: - https://medium.com/@_daniel/publish-interactive-historical-d...

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Mmh, lens example doesn't work well with the ipad pro (safari). I get a zoom on a few words and can't zoom out.

For the scientific editor mobile is not a priority atm. However we work on better mobile support for Substance in general. Beta 5 is dedicated to that among other things.

looks promising, and something I'd like to use over tinyMCE.

however, the 'lens' example seems broken. in both FF and chrome (all up-to-date) I can't insert figures. FF just does nothing, chrome gives me a file chooser, but images do not appear in the document. is this a known bug ?

You are right. I may have broken that with the last update. Will be fixed soon. Generally, LensWriter is still in experimental state but we are working with publishers to integrate into their workflows. During April there will be a push on enabling LensWriter to read and write JATS XML files.

thanks, I'll look into it later on :) I played with that example because it has almost all features I normally use with tinyMCE.

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