5/30 (Friday) Macworld posted an article "Writing tools we use," basically a video by Jason Snell covering writing tools used at Macworld mag/sites and personally. Scrivener is featured for his personal use. Very nice comments about Scriv. http://www.macworld.com/article/133699/2008/05/mwv...

If you can find someone with FontLab or like, it's fairly trivial to create a new unified face that would have old style numerals in place of the standard. There may be some free or shareware font editing tools out there that would do the same. Then you could actually name it MyFont.

Obviously, I've been spending too much time in Adobe apps, esp. Photoshop, of late.

A long time ago, Keith was kind enough to change the File: Force Save to just the more common File: Save. I know Scriv is saving along behind the scenes, but after 20 years of Mac, I'm probably too set in what I've come to know. Maybe I'm pressing it here, but why does Scriv leave the File: Save &qu...

I put a several weeks into trying to learn the Dvorak layout quite a few years ago. I was typing 145 wpm on qwerty at the time. I struggled to get back to 145 on the Dvorak, finally gave it up. The only alternate I found that really seemed to up my speed was a prototype folding keyboard that allowed...

When I started a silly newsletter in '85, I called up Aldus and asked if they'd send a freebie for me to use in exchange for a mention in each NL. They laughed. I called RSG, talked to the president, and had a copy by FedEx the next day. A year later Aldus called back and offered a free copy and $50...

Hi blu, MS seems to be all over the board on this. I got my copy very soon after they started shipping, but they sent the wrong edition. A phone call, they sent the correct version, refunded all shipping, and told me to keep the first shipped version as well. Flakey, but that's MS. Of course, having...

When I bring up Scriv to work for the day, I'm never tempted to kick over to the browser or email. I'm hardly a disciplined person, but I find the writing to be more fun and adventurous than anything on the web. I'd hate to not be able to read over some work from the last week and make edits. But ma...

michaelbywater wrote:Zen story? Yes:

Years ago, when writing on a daily paper, I did a feature on a zen center. It was slated to run as a section front, and I wanted to have two columns of white. Then, of course, a note "continued on page 6" with another white column.

I've used DreamHost for a few years, though I've never had any site up that was nearly as slow as this forum. The main Scriv pages come up very quickly, at least here. DH has problems from time to time. I think it was two years ago after some email flakiness I looked at some other hosting folks with...

Not a huge thing, but when I quit Scriv (1.11), on restarting later the Recent Projects choice under File take a rather long time to present - 5 seconds or so. Once it seems to have built up whatever, and as long as Scriv continues running (which is almost always, here), the same bit is instant. I'v...

Jaysen wrote:Vista? That sir was uncalled for. Take it back.

Surely Redmond wishes they could take it back, too.

My favorite: Two young zen monks are walking from one village to another. Along the way, they come across a beautiful girl in very fine silk clothing standing before a large stretch of muddy road. One of the monks bows gently before the girl, picks her up and carries her across the mud so she will n...

Unless you really need features specific to Leopard, I'd leave the PowerBook as is. You could run it, but just because you can doesn't mean you should. :) I've been running Leopard since a month after intro, but mostly because a few bits of software I use, like the new version of Omni things, requir...

Then there are things that just plain don't make sense. My favorite personal example is the attack of the government forces at the end of ET. They are wrapping this little suburban house in plastic! Why?!! Supposedly to prevent contamination - but ET's been wandering around the neighborhood, and th...