(Yes, I am lazy. Or rather, I'm chasing a NaNoWriMo deadline and don't want to devote a day or two to probably reinventing the wheel ...!) Are there any pre-built lists of names for the Name Generator available for download anywhere? (I'm specifically looking for French names, male and female: Frenc...

There was a problem reported earlier in the beta about the conversion between Mac and Windows projects, where the default text colour is interpreted differently by the two platforms (to do with the RTF format) and this causes a problem in dark themes. As far as I remember, the workaround was Docume...

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I finally got my MS to import, with comments, by going back to the original and not accepting all changes. (Now trying to work out what, if anything, I've missed …)

I'm having a possibly-related problem importing a word document (as .docx or as RTF) that contains numerous comments. The file is a novel manuscript that my editor has annotated extensively—novel runs to 113,000 words, but editor has inserted 524 comments (per Word 16). If I save as RTF without comm...

illotg: 1. Palm != Psion. Not even close. Utterly different form factor and use case. 2. Gemini != Psion. It's an updated take on the same form factor (a keyboard-oriented PC-like device you put in your pocket). (I will note that Nokia successfully sold such devices for over a decade in the shape of...

Okay, this goes way beyond a reasonable wish, into ha-ha-you-must-be-kidding territory, but ... Those of us in the UK and of a certain age harbour an unreasonable nostalgia for Psion's PDAs, first the Series 3s and then the Psion Series 5 circa 1997 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psion_Series_5 ). ...

I'm a bit gutted. I (naively) had hoped for a price decrease on the old models, if a new model were announced. Off-topic digression: the price rise is entirely down to post-Brexit-referendum currency instability. Eight months ago there were 1.55 US dollars to the pound sterling; today sterling is w...

I've never completed NaNo, but I'm in as a rebel: I'm a whisker under 70,000 words into a novel and I really need a complete first draft (140,000 words minimum) by the end of the year, so that's me in the corner. (NB: my all-time record was 51,000 words in one week flat -- and published by an imprin...

Just stumbled across this thread and decided to test it: Scriv/iOS crashes on my iPad Mini 4 when exporting via "Send a Copy" right after counting up through all the files in the "create an archive" alert. iOS 10.0.2. Crashes exactly the same on iPad Pro 12.9", iOS 10.0.2. C...

Let's just be clear ... are we talking about a template for the Sad Boner Professor Novel? Or some other Great American Novel? Sad Boner Professor: you know the story already . He's a middle-aged Creative English prof at an Ivy League school who is also a best-selling novelist, he's up for tenure or...

Actually, at risk of flogging a dead horse ... I regularly kick out drafts-in-progress to a forum for my test readers to focus-group them. And I have to run multiple compiles each time; one for docx, one for html, one for epub, one for mobi. All using exactly the same compile settings -- just to mul...

Standard publisher workflow is to perform copy-edits in Word, using tracked changes and comments, which author then is expected to review and annotate/correct in Word. They then typeset in something like InDesign and send out PDFs for you to mark up and return -- either by printing them out or by do...

Being a glutton for gadgets, I've got one of everything. No, really. And the unpalatable fact is, no one size fits all needs. Aside from email and web, I've got four key tasks for an iPad that occupy about 80% of my use time: reading ebooks, reading comics (in ComiXology), writing in Scrivener, and ...

It depends what you mean by size - lots of files or large in file size (megabytes)? If the former, it makes no difference. If the latter, the only difference it will make is that the first time you sync via Dropbox it could take a while as it transfers all files to your device. After that, only fil...

I'd just like to snark briefly to the effect that the current beta of Scriv for iOS is considerably more stable and bug-free than Microsoft Word for Mac (the 2016/Office 365 version). I just got a crash course reminder in why I switched to Scriv all those years ago last week when I had to break off ...