Call me old fashioned, but I use TextSoap to create lists. ⋅ Write out list without any adornment such as bullets. ⋅ Copy to TextSoap. ⋅ Apply one of my list making "custom cleaners". ⋅ Paste back into The Scriv. Custom cleaners for this are simple R...

Juddbert wrote:Methinks Patrick is on to a winner

Thank you for your support

I do like cromulent.

Time Machine is a really great thing for me.

Quick Look I use a lot as well.

There are many niceties and improvements with Leopard.

Hi I didn't know about Scribus. I guess I should have a look at it. I confess I don't get excited about open source applications because I find the ones I look at to be yuk :) It may be I am over picky or just unlucky. The two big ones I've explored are The Gimp and OpenOffice in its Mac native vers...

Hi I haven't downloaded it yet, but I think it is a great idea. There is a yawning gap between Pages and the big league layout programs such as InDesign. I suspect that iStudio Publisher would have all I'd require myself. I hope the problem with "Great Firewall of China" gets resolved. As ...

When I've finished doing my accounts (I hate it) I might check out this:

iStudio Publisher

Hi The creation of call out boxes and graphics really isn't Scrivener's territory. You can put images into Scrivener and it will export them, so you could put an illustration into Scrivener and it will export that. I think if I were doing a book of the kind you describe I would write it in Scriverne...

Hi Thank you very much derick, I have Sente, Endnote and Bookends all on trial but I will now add BibDesk to my collection :) I also like the idea of AppleScript integration with Pages. I notice that the new Pages in iWork '09 has integration with Endnote but not Sente or Bookends. I think Apple sho...

I like Pages although I haven't tried the one in iWork '09 yet. Pages always seems very easy to use. I'm also a fan of Numbers which seems to have been designed very well for my sort of of spreadsheet use. I'm doing my accounts at the moment so I'm using Numbers a lot. I used to use AppleWorks for t...

I grew up in Northern Ireland which for the most part speaks English. Some of the English words used in Northern Ireland are quite unique to the province. Studies have shown that many of these unique words date from the 16th and 17th centuries. One word I remember very well that I used as a child, &...

I like "whilst" and there is nothing old fashioned about it. It is in widespread use in the UK. I do like "methinks" a lot and use it myself. Unlike "whilst", "methinks" is considered old English. I'm a sort of one man campaign to rehabilitate "methinks&q...

Hi This is a comment to the OP and any others wishing to write scripts for videos or other forms of multimedia production. I don't think you will successfully get Scrivener to work as you wish. Whilst Scrivener is absolutely the best for single column writing it is not able to do "table style&q...

Hi The classic OS version of Nisus Writer would select a sentence with three clicks. Four clicks would select a para. I've just checked the current version of Nisus Writer for OSX and I see that it won't do this. It is the same I think as all the other current word-processors and text editors. The c...

Hi I heard it first here :) Your posting is the first time I hear about iWork '09. I'm a fan of iWork so I am looking forward to checking it out. That Internet thing looks very interesting, I've just watched the tutorial on that at the Apple website. I think that Internet thing would be very good fo...

Hi I agree with reinhard that there is no disadvantage with the EagleFiler system as described here. I have to say that I've never used EagleFiler, but I can guess that it stores all its files in a regular folder, or folders. DevonThink and, as it happens, Scrivener store their files in Packages . Y...