Little cosmetic one: (1) Change the text colour of a note to, say, red. (2) Create new note which inherits the text colour of (1) (3) Select all the text of note (2) and change colour to e.g. black (4) Insertion point remains red (or whatever colour (2) inherited from (1)) No big deal but perhaps wo...

I don't think the current trajectory of Pages leaves it of much interest to Scrivener users. Apple seems to have gone for feature parity with the iOS version, which means stripping out a whole raft of features essential to any mid-range professional user. Rather than duplicate the details, I'd refer...

Yes, and while we're at it can we get rid of all that gobshite drivel in the newspapers about pop stars and fecking foopball and chefs which I'm not interested in and which I have to fecking take the effort to not fecking read thus depleting my powers of discrimination for when I need it later on? ...

Yes, and while we're at it can we get rid of all that gobshite drivel in the newspapers about pop stars and fecking foopball and chefs which I'm not interested in and which I have to fecking take the effort to not fecking read thus depleting my powers of discrimination for when I need it later on? O...

I agree (so far). The whole book feels smoother. Maybe it's easier to find a "voice" for this particular genre, I don't know. A bit of fecking swearing can paper over the fecking cracks in even the structurally most fecking fecked-up fecking shite, don't you find? Well I fecking do. FECKI...

I like this. Can it be set in Warracknabeal? And bags I the odd bloke in the Akubra 'Sombrero' model who spends the entire novel trying to shape it into that weird Bush Tucker Man bash but can't because he's a galah. If you don't know what a Bush Tucker Man Bash is, it looks like this: BTM640x480.jp...

I think having the slightly 'different' styles from non-native English speakers would be charming. :) OTOH if it concerns the writer, or Pigfender, or whoever: if you can promise to get your piece in a couple of hours before the deadline, I'd be happy to give it a fast going over and tweak grammar ...

She clasped him in her manly arms. "Begorrah!" cried the evil hook-nosed rabbi. He reached for his gun. In the distance a snake barked. With a thunderous roar the mighty jets roared thunderously into reverse thrust, then into forward thrust again, then into reverse thrust, then into forwar...

Personally, I'd love to see OS X Wagga Wagga, or OS X Uluru, but I can accept that's not going to happen. Now you're talking. Aussie-themed. Brilliant. OS X 10.10 Pitjantjatjara. Or, come to that, OS X 10.11 Strzelecki. You don't pronounce it right, you don't get the download. ("Right" in...

[...] Rewriting the entire UI (likely in Cocoa which is going to change more than just the UI) is a huge undertaking in an program like Tinderbox. That's what I understand Mark Bernstein, Tinderbox's progenitor, is currently doing. The glimpses on his blog look pretty far advanced. And pretty. Thou...

Very sceptical about this sort of stuff. It may be amusing for hobbyist-writers but if you're serious it has no place at all. Like learning the piano by running piano-rolls through a pianola. If one of my students turned up with one of these applications I'd suggest they'd delete it NOW.

I'm only talking about reorganisation of the Preferences and some of the options that really belong together, along with continuing to refine Compile so that it doesn't *completely* baffle new users. What do you mean, " new " users? Suddenly us old-timers are forgotten? Well. You may be f...

I was going to say this I added "Other" to my choices, as I, when writing screenplays, make extensive use of custom-meta data for outlining etc but then mats said it. (one category called "two sentences", summarising the scene/beat and explaining its relevance for the story/plot;...

I have always, since my first tentative keystrokes, used the Tab key to indent dialogue, as one key press is faster than five. . . . I could see that in Markdown you would have to use the five space workaround as my experience of it (and yet again I may be guilty of syntactic abuse) is that an inde...

What you need is an overarching spaceship themed metaphor Or organ. Overarching ORGAN metaphor. That's the job. But what I want to know is this stuff about dialogue indenting. Have I been missing something? You're telling me, all these years I have been making of myself a putz, where I thought dial...