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Scrivener Windows Beta - makes we want alternatives
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Posted by Dr Andus
Jan 5, 2011 at 04:12 PM
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Check out
>Q10 http://www.baara.com/q10/ (also mentioned in another
>thread)
>and WriteMonkey http://www.writemonkey.com/
Alexander, thanks very much for these, they are both great. Unfortunately I couldn’t install Q10 on Windows 7, but runs fine on XP.
doctorandus
Posted by MsJulie
Jan 7, 2011 at 03:00 PM
DrAndus
Early last month I did an informal test of Scrivner with Dragon Naturally Speaking—and the text input fields are not what Dragon considers normal. I believe that was not true of the corkboard notes field—that one, oddly, reporting back as normal according to Dragon.
I haven’t messed with subsequent releases although I would expect that characteristic is already pretty much set in programming stone.
Having said that, it is true that Dragon 11 is usually dead-on accurate, so correction hassles will be minimal.
Happy New Year to all!
Posted by Thomas
Jan 10, 2011 at 11:13 PM
MsJulie wrote:
>I haven’t messed with subsequent releases although I
>would expect that characteristic is already pretty much set in programming
>stone.
That could be because Scrivener doesn’t use the native Windows interface but is built on top of QT GUI framework (I believe).
Try to contact the developer who is highly responsive.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Feb 26, 2011 at 08:44 AM
For context, here’s another interesting tool providing an environment for writing without distractions; Textroom is free and works on Windows, Mac and Linux.
See here http://code.google.com/p/textroom/ and here http://textroom.sourceforge.net/
Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>Check out
>Q10 http://www.baara.com/q10/ (also mentioned in another
>thread)
>and WriteMonkey http://www.writemonkey.com/
Dr Andus wrote:
>>If anyone out there is aware of any other software which
>>can do this
>typewriter simulation (white paper, black background, and absolutely
>>nothing
>else on the screen), I would be very interested in and grateful to find out
>>about.
Posted by GeorgeB
Feb 27, 2011 at 03:21 AM
Alexander,
TextRoom is a good find. I’ve been playing with it this afternoon and it’s a keeper. Thank you. gB