All three workspaces share the same structure: navigation on the left, a working canvas in the center and an inspector on the right.
The three areas
The left navigation lists what surrounds the current document: workspace files, a document outline or a diagram’s structure.
The central canvas is the document itself.
The right inspector offers Document, describing what you opened, and Format, acting on the current selection. Its contents change with the workspace and selection.
View > Show inspector (⌥⌘I) shows or hides it.
What Balise remembers
Panel widths and visibility are remembered separately for each workspace. You can use a wide inspector in Data and no inspector in Markdown.
In Markdown, Balise automatically folds navigation or the inspector when the window becomes too narrow, then restores your layout when room returns.
Tabs
Several Markdown files can remain open as tabs in one window. Each tab indicates its modified state and asks for confirmation before losing an unsaved change.
Zoom
View > Zoom in (⌘+), Zoom out (⌘−) and Actual Size (⌘0) work wherever zoom is meaningful.
Each workspace adds its own fitting option: to width in Markdown, or to width or selection in Data.
Accessibility
Areas, cells, buttons, states and results have accessibility labels and help. Mermaid’s structural navigation exposes the same actions as the canvas to the keyboard and VoiceOver.
Balise respects macOS’s Reduce motion setting.
Language
The interface is available in French, English and Spanish, with French as fallback. Choose a language in Settings.
The manual follows the language chosen in Balise and remains available offline.
What this surface does not do
- Balise does not offer customizable window layouts beyond the three areas.
- Tabs belong to Markdown; other workspaces open one window per document.