Using MuchAdo¶

MuchAdo Words opens a document in a window and lets you edit and save it. That is the whole of it today, and it is worth being clear about what that means before you install anything.

• Install — getting it onto your machine, including the payload.
• Work with documents — opening, saving, printing.
• What works today — the honest list.

The shape of it¶

MuchAdo is two pieces that arrive separately.

The application is a small Python package. It is a few hundred kilobytes: the window, the command line, and the host that the editor talks to.

The payload is everything else — the editors themselves, the document engine, the fonts. It is about 136 MB compressed, per platform, and it is fetched or installed once rather than shipped inside the Python package.

They are versioned separately and the application checks that the payload it finds is the one it expects. This is why installing MuchAdo is two steps rather than one.

What it is not¶

MuchAdo does not talk to a server, does not need an account, and does not upload your documents anywhere. The editor runs as local web content served over 127.0.0.1 to a window on your own machine. There is no collaboration, no cloud storage and no telemetry, because none of it is built.