Yes, my sincere apologies about this. I’ve had a new iOS update ready to roll out for a while now, but we’ve been understaffed with various people away over the last three weeks or so, and I didn’t want to release the new update while my main support bods were out. They’re back now, so I’ll get the new update out very soon (hopefully this week, if not, next).
I have indeed been working hard on macOS 3.0, but I’ve also been working hard on some things that need doing for the iOS version that many users won’t even notice. Dropbox has changed their backend API, replacing API 1 with API 2, and API 1 (which Scrivener for iOS uses) has been deprecated and will stop working as of next July. So I had to spend over a month rewriting all of Scrivener for iOS’s sync code to use API 2 (there are no changes on the front end, since the APIs work the same, they just use completely different code…). I’ve also been going through Scrivener for macOS’s 4,500 and iOS’s 1,500 snippets of text preparing them for translation, and writing some internal translation tools, so that we can ensure 3.0 is translated into other languages (and translated better than the 2.x) from the off, and that our iOS version is translated in early 2017.
As for Mac touch bar support, I finally have a Mac in the house with a touch bar, so we are now thinking about how to best support it (for 3.0).
Working as a freelance translator for the last 14 years with lots of experience in IT and software translation, I would like to offer my help if you need an additional resource for translating the Mac and iOS version into German.
Would love to work with you guys on this.
That sounds like quite some work to be done. But sure, the translation has to be done properly. How about the documentation/tutorial? Any plans for an upcoming translation of those? Just asking, as i have no idea about your Userbase in different countries. I only noticed, that the German version of Scrivener is held in mixed English/German. Like in the menu or the preferences, which may give Scrivener a “half-baked” look to some potential byers. Plus this fact stops Scrivener from unleashing its full power for some users.
Let me know if you need any help with the translation. And don`t worry, my German (native) is way better than my written English :mrgreen:
the 3.0 work should no doubt make things all the more fun for the inveterate Windows team – if i am looking forward very much to their results: which could at need forgo the translations at first, would think…
further on translations, have you considered a community approach? That’s very often done these days, and seems to work out very well, especially given the variety of languages in visibility present days. As well, with Scrivener’s clientele, you’ve certainly/probably got a very literate crew – plus a clear amount of programming types…
Anyway, best fortune, and appreciation for all the good, not to say extremely useful and used, work…
Kind regards,
Clive
p.s. I’d actually PMed up Ioa last night, wondering from silences if you’d taken the whole support crew off on a tropical retreat or something…!
Oh? It doesn’t look like I’ve received it for some reason. Well, if you compare my location tag with what it was a fortnight ago, that might explain the period of silence from my end at any rate.
My wife and I are working to walk the Camino in the next 2-3 years. We have a couple of folks (including our new interim priest) at our church who have walked it within the last few years.
The first week we started going to this church, I first heard about El Camino, discovered (and watched) the excellent Emilio Estevez/Martin Sheen movie about the Camino (“The Way”), and then at our first church service it was announced one of the ladies had just returned from her pilgrimage and would be doing a presentation during coffee hour. Guess that was a sign!
I’ve been planning it for about 5 years now. Maybe a little longer. I could do it physically finally, but now have “life” in the way. Some day it will be done.
It was “The Way” (the movie) that did it for me. Hit me at a time when I needed to do some rediscovery and it was the motivation I needed. Along the path of preparation the needed “who am I” got answered and now… I’m less driven. Still intend to do it, but no longer feel that I must.
I agree. Every experience (whether a long walk, gazing at the stars, talking with strangers, etc) is a both a pilgrimage and a homage to life and living. An interesting ensemble—a man with a fine green plumage, a headless man, and a fat cherub. Wonder if we can convince others to join us on the road less travelled?
Hmm. It doesn’t seem to exist; expect the Nisse (gremlins) got it.
You’ll be happy to know however that i chivvied you about your new locale in this piece also, which doesn’t exist.
Iceland is a great place in the dark of the year; hope you found it so. Spain, a country I think you could spend whole lives in for its varieties in regions, each its own customs and flavors, all with mountains and great distances between. You can really understand Don Quixote if you travel there some.
Iceland was beautiful in the sort of way I care for. Dense fog whipped around mostly unseen mountains, the smell of the sea in your hair and a landscape that almost looks like you might imagine Martian to be after a century of terraforming, all around a little cabin on a coastal cliff in the formidable shadow of old Snæfellsjökull.
We got lucky with some really cheap tickets, they seem to be pushing tourism, so as a port of entry into the EU, it’s not a bad choice on the wallet or the senses.
At any rate, I’m humbled to make Compostela my home for a little while. So if any of you manage to find yourself here with sore ankles and in want of ale or tea and some yak about novels, let me know.
got a very literate crew – plus a clear amount of programming types…
