It allows me to format the way I want and need to format. It does a great export to xml and it’s better than Word. This is the program I do most of my writing in. I know it could be worse because, in fact, Word used to be even worse. But, it’s convenient to have, and (AM I REALLY SAYING THIS?) it could be worse. I hate that Word thinks it knows how I should write and how I should format what I write. It works seamlessly across Mac and PC versions. I’ve edited in Word on my iPad with a document in Dropbox and picked up on the desktop and laptop, so, despite what I’m about to say, that is a huge, huge convenience. Word has versions for iOS and Mac OS, so this wins on the portability fork. Right now, they’re running a “Try for Mac during NaNoWriMo” option, so if you’re nanoing, maybe check it out. I just recently, as in a couple of days ago, got this program. I confess to liking a lot of the features. Obviously there are legions who disagree. Personally, any application that needs How-To books and weeks long courses is an application that is too complicated for me. Scrivenerįor many writers, this is a go-to program. I can’t figure out anything in Pages and it’s as pushy and overbearing as Word. As soon as I spend five minutes trying to figure out how to do something that should be easy, I quit. Because Open Office choked on a 90,000 word document. That might have been true, but only if the professional writer’s document wasn’t a novel. At that time, Open Office billed itself as an amazing tool for a professional writer. My experience with this application goes back several years when I attempted to avoid using Word ever. So, this could well be a great option for the budget minded or people who are wary of Microsoft’s push to the cloud. This means it passes the portability test. However, and this is key, it opened a large Word document with no problem. Libre Office was too much like my nemesis, Word. Without a seamless way to integrate with a desktop machine and back, I don’t see this as a go-to professional writing application. My main issue was that it struck me as geared for shorter material, not the sort of long form writing, versioning, and editing required for a novel. Export to pdf or ePub was pretty easy, too. It’s still on my devices because I can totally see using this for small form writing or emergencies. I don’t have much time for a learning curve. There’s something of a learning curve with the way it uses gestures and stacking of documents/pages. There’s a lot to love here, but it failed me on the portability fork of the test. I really wanted to like this more than I did. This is iOS only, that is, iPhone and iPad only. I did try to write in it but it wasn’t what I need for my WPF disorder. Not in active development so (lifts hands). But this is a great, lightweight application that does a lot. I poked around some to see if I might want to write in this application via the Windows virtual machines I run on my Macs. Jutoh and Atlantis are about the same price, so based on output alone, Atlantis would be my choice. I’ve seen what Jutoh (a Word document conversion application) does under the hood for ePub, and there’s no comparison. There’s a plug-in for it, and from what I’ve seen it’s just about the best, cleanest export I’ve seen. Most of my familiarity with this application comes from its ability to do an extremely good export to ePub. And, believe it or not, I have some praise for Word. This isn’t intended to be an in depth review of all these applications, but if you don’t like Word there are options out there from free to less than $50.00. The program should not crash or perform badly with very large documents, which most novels tend to be, and it needs not to exceed my (low) tolerance for reading instructions. I’ll also mention that with my writing, I want shortcuts for tasks, voice interactivity, easy editing, and portability to sharable formats and across devices.
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