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I found this text editor and it seems cool. I’m not a programmer but I have a few questions.

1.) Can this be integrated into a website?
2.) Can this be modified to have custom commands for formatting - like for writing books or comic scripts?
3.) Are packages extra money?
4.) Does this have pagination? Like for typing tv/film or comic scripts
5.) Can custom commands that allow different cursor positions, case height, bold, and indentions when hotkeys are pressed?

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1.) Can this be integrated into a website?

No. Sublime Text is a native application not based on web technologies.

2.) Can this be modified to have custom commands

Sublime Text provides a python based plugin environment, which can be used to customize behavior or provide extra functionality.

Note: formatting is restricted to plain text operations.

3.) Are packages extra money?

Some packages require you to by a license, but vast majority is open source and free of charge.

4.) Does this have pagination?

Sublime Text is a plain text or code editor. It doesn’t support displaying or organizing text content in pages. Pagination is something a text processor might do, if source is converted to pdf, but that’s out of scope for Sublime Text’s core functions.

5.) Can custom commands that allow different cursor positions, case height, bold, and indentions when hotkeys are pressed?

ST supports multi-cursor editing. Plugins can add/remove or modify location of cursors.

Text indentation is controlled via tab and shift+tab keys by adding or removing \t or related number of leading spaces.

Rendering bold and italic text is supported via syntax highlighting (see Markdown syntax), but text formatting is not supported in general. You can’t modify plain text to bold or italic or modify font names.

Sublime Text is not a text processor such as LibreOffice or Microsoft Word.

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