= Zim
{c}
{tag=Open source software}
{tag=WYSIWYG text editor}
Zim https://zim-wiki.org/
Local only.
<WYSIWYG>:
* bold
* images
* lists. But it is either hard or impossible to have a paragraph inside a list item.
\Image[https://web.archive.org/web/20250218231148im_/https://zim-wiki.org/screenshots/zim-normal.png]
{title=<Zim>}
{height=600}
Mathematics requires a plugin and a full <LaTeX> install: https://zim-wiki.org/manual/Plugins/Equation_Editor.html They have a bunch of plugins: https://zim-wiki.org/manual/Plugins.html
Can only link to toplevel of each source, not subheaders? And subpages get forced scope. https://github.com/zim-desktop-wiki/zim-desktop-wiki
Publishing to static HTML can be done with:
``
zim --export Notes -o out
``
The output does not contain any table of contents? There is a plugin however: https://zim-wiki.org/manual/Plugins/Table_Of_Contents.html
It is unclear if their markup is compatible with an existing language of if it was made up from scratch. Wikipedia says:
> In Zim, text is written and saved in a lightweight mark-up that is a hybrid of <DokuWiki> and <Markdown>.
You can't determine the ordering or pages at the same level, alphabetical ordering of force. The poplevel is encoded in `notebook.zim`:
``
[Notebook]
home=Home
``
Feature request: https://github.com/zim-desktop-wiki/zim-desktop-wiki/issues/32[]. It's not usable as a publishing system!
Doesn't seem to have image captions: https://superuser.com/questions/1285898/picture-description-in-zim-wiki-0-64
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