12/2/2023 0 Comments Ia writer![]() ![]() IPad-app roots in support for cloud storage. The latest Mac version of iA Writer shows its Unfortunately, they fade away as you type-the whole distraction-free thing again-and you need to click the mouse somewhere else in the window to view them. If, like me, you often write to word counts, these numbers are great information to have. ![]() You’ll find the usual word and character counts, along with a metric called reading time, which is an estimate, based on the number of words in the document, of how long it would take someone to read it. Writer supports OS X’s built-in spell checker, and in the footer of the Writer window are a few basic document statistics. And if you want formatting without Markdown, you’re out of luck. Formatting characters disappear only when you export a file to RTF and open it in another program. The drawback is that while surrounding text with asterisks, for example, does indeed underline it, the asterisks remain visible, as well, which can be confusing. The advantage of using Markdown for an app such as iA Writer is that you can apply formatting without having to use any menus or buttons (though you can use standard formatting keyboard shortcuts-Command-U for underline and Command-B for bold-and Writer will apply the asterisks for you). Markdown syntax for, for example, underlining (asterisks around text), bold (double asterisks around text), and headers (one or more # symbols)-add these control characters and the formats are immediately applied to the designated text. If you must have formatting, iA Writer uses I would prefer if focus mode would at least highlight several sentences before and after the active one, if not the entire paragraph containing the active sentence. Just as atoms have value only when they form molecules, individual sentences are meaningful mainly when combined with other sentences-they depend on the surrounding text for context. To use a chemistry analogy, a sentence is an atom and a paragraph is a molecule. Few writers that I know actually write sentence by sentence. Personally, I wasn’t a fan of focus mode. The program even provides keyboard shortcuts (Command-Option-left arrow and -right arrow) to navigate from sentence to sentence. According to the developer, this mode allows you to focus on the specific text you’re actively writing. In other words, the sentence you’re typing is displayed in black, with the rest of the text in a medium grey. But up till that point content blocks is simple and easy for me.The second feature is “focus mode,” which, when active, dims all the text in your document except the current sentence. My wild guess is I probably wouldn’t write anything longer than about 20,000 words using iA Writer. I don’t know where the “dividing line” is when Scrivener is definitely a better choice … but I’d guess anything longer than 50,000 words I’d definitely do in Scrivener. It’s not unusual for me to write documents that are 5,000 to 10,000 words long and content blocks is just fine & simple in that situation. If I were writing a novel I’d go with Scrivener. So not a fast/obvious as Scrivener, but definitely more than fast enough for my purposes. some other iA Writer file) the app does a great automatic job of searching/finding that other file. But it’s simple enough … a lot of this is because once you start typing a “content block” (i.e. That said, in practice I don’t really mind the content blocks approach. I’m very used to Scrivener and how this is a quite useful feature. Yes, that’s a very nice feature within Scrivener (and Ulysses). ![]()
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