In the announcement of the improvements in 3.1.2, the following statements sound potentially inconsistent and a possible source of confusion to me: - When the Java-based Aspose converters for creating Word and Office files fail, Scrivener now shows a message to warn the user that Apple’s more basic ...

Yes, I've known of fellow Brits called Scrivener (or Scriven, which is presumably a derivative). I even knew of a journalist called Peter Scrivener, and if that's not an example of nominative determinism, I don't know what is!

Welcome to Scrivener and its forums, Andreas.

Presumably, you or your friend have checked out the various introductory books about Scrivener on Amazon, and the various courses to be found via Google, and found them not adequate?

Just to add a postscript to lunk's reply: Scrivener is very much designed to handle a lot of files. Some users have reported in this forum that the application successfully handles projects of 1Gb or more. But there's at least one thing to note about large projects with a lot of research files: they...

Ha! The link is on the Phatware landing page, but the connections to the UK App Store and then onwards to the US App Store are broken/non-operative as you say. That'll teach me not to believe everything I read on a developer's website that is unfamiliar to me...

PhatWare (who produced two third-party keyboards and innumerable note-taking apps) did not use MyScript engines. I could tell because the approach to recognition was so different—PhatWare was definitely taking strokes into account, whereas MyScript appears to look at final form only. (PhatWare's re...

I just looked this up, and yes, Mazec uses a MyScript engine, according to Business Week. That doesn't surprise me, as MyScript seem much more interested in licencing their engines than in selling apps. I've noticed for a while now that the purpose of MyScript apps is really to showcase their techn...

I think you're correct, Silverdragon - Mazec is the last such app standing (although I believe that I've read somewhere that the withdrawal of Stylus by MyScript is in preparation for a replacement app - and certainly I've seen MyScript do that kind of thing before). It's a shame about Stylus, but I...

From a dev standpoint, it's a no-brainer. I'm a fan of this idea, so don't get me wrong, but people have been asking for this feature nearly as long as the software's been in existence--yet it hasn't been implemented, which leads me to suspect it's really not a no-brainer. Just guessing - but to ju...

Unless you're planning to be correct all the time, maybe drop the snark? (And even then it's probably a good idea!) Katherine is one of the most helpful and least snarky people around here, so is it possible you read a little extra into the response that she hadn't put there? (She IS correct all th...

I have a theory that certain rhythms and syllable combinations work better for different character types in a novel. This theory is not based on any in depth psychological studies, nor is it drawn from an understanding of cognitive behaviour. It’s just a hunch (albeit a hunch that I follow for all ...

Authors do this in all sorts of ways - apart, of course, from using the Scrivener name generator. Famously, Ian Fleming took the name of James Bond from the author of a book about birds (probably on a shelf in the house in Jamaica, Goldeneye, where he wrote his novels). He wanted a blunt, plain name...

Hi Lyd, Welcome to Scrivener, Just to say that the Manual is more in the nature of a reference book, rather than a guide to be read from start to finish. Personally, I think that it's an amazing piece of work, but it is long and detailed. I agree with Ray above that an as-good or better introduction...

Welcome to Scrivener and its forums, Perwiz. Sorry to hear about your problems. It's not a good idea, except in extreme circumstances, to go searching within your project folder for the text that you've lost. That could make it difficult for you to launch your project subsequently. Are you sure that...

devinganger wrote:
The soundtrack to Altamira (a wonderful movie BTW) -- great instrumental from Mark Knopfler

Many thanks for this suggestion, Devin - very conducive of an almost-dream state. Now I must get the movie!