Oyama Scribe

What it does

Oyama Scribe
Oyama Scribe is a native Windows word processor written in C# and WPF. This first release establishes a clean Microsoft Word-inspired workspace and a foundation for a broader family of desktop document applications.

Key features

• Rich text editing with undo, redo, cut, copy, paste, spell checking, and keyboard shortcuts
• Font, size, emphasis, color, alignment, indentation, bullets, numbering, and reusable title/heading styles
• Open and save for RTF and plain-text documents
• Native .oyama projects with metadata, layout persistence, atomic saves, backups, autosave, and crash recovery
• Printing through the Windows print dialog
• Live word, character, and estimated page counts
• Search and a heading-based navigation pane
• Letter, A4, A5, and 6 × 9-inch book page presets with margin presets
• Book tools for chapters, front matter, scene breaks, and forced page breaks
• Five ready-to-apply book designs: Oyama Modern, Classic Literary, Romance Elegance, Clean Nonfiction, and Large Print
• Live two-page book proofing with page 1 on the recto, verso/recto and outside-edge indicators, safe-area and gutter guides, spread navigation, and zoom
• Exact inside, outside, top, and bottom margins in inches with optional mirroring and a separate binding gutter
• Anchored, automatically numbered footnotes and endnotes with a persistent notes inspector and note-type conversion
• Mirrored verso composition in book proofing and printing
• Fixed-size single-page proofing with horizontal and vertical inch rulers, live paginator page counts, and hard-break placement
• Page-break manager with navigation and reversible removal, plus Ctrl+Enter insertion
• Functional headers, footers, and automatic page numbers shared by page proof, spread proof, and printing
• Find/replace, change case, superscript/subscript, paragraph pagination controls, spelling controls, statistics, and publishing preflight
• Native productivity layout with a light command/title strip, compact ribbon, Book navigator, tabbed inspector, and responsive status bar
• Streaming, cancellable DOCX import followed by a required Book Setup wizard for trim, binding, margins, gutter, typography, chapter starts, numbering, and running headers
• Book-wide layout and style defaults that propagate to every section and remain active when chapters are loaded lazily
• Virtualized scrolling Page View with discrete automatically composed sheets instead of one continuously expanding paper surface
• Zoom, focus mode, responsive ribbon overflow, and adaptive navigation