Somebody feels we need to found a middle way between full WYSIYWG and two pane source/preview for Markdown writing?
Maybe ghostwriter[0] is what you are looking for?
NovelWriter 1.0 – A markdown-like editor for writing novels
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Re: NovelWriter 1.0 – A markdown-like editor for writing novels
#12is author here?
- Is it suitable for non-technical writers? is there any feedback on them baing able to use markdown, @pov tags etc?
- did you try some commercial competitors? How would you compare? I understand scrivener is one popular option
Re: NovelWriter 1.0 – A markdown-like editor for writing novels
#13It would be amazing if it fixed your grammar, removed cliches, fixed wordiness, activated passive language, swapped repeated words, fixed my run on sentences, overall just fixed my englitch. #featurerequest
You'd need a human editor to do all that. Automatically fixing run-on sentences and removing repeated words is possible. Activating passive sentences is challenging; Grammarly gets it wrong all the time, in my experience. Replacing cliches and fixing wordiness would be very challenging without deep linguistic and cultural knowledge.
Re: NovelWriter 1.0 – A markdown-like editor for writing novels
#14Somebody feels we need to found a middle way between full WYSIYWG and two pane source/preview for Markdown writing?
Maybe ghostwriter [0] is what you are looking for? [0] http://wereturtle.github.io/ghostwriter/
I just found typora[0] and Emacs "M-x markdown-toggle-markup-hiding" :)
Re: NovelWriter 1.0 – A markdown-like editor for writing novels
#15Screenshots: https://novelwriter.readthedocs.io/en/stable/int_introductio... From the main page ( https://novelwriter.io ): novelWriter is a Markdown-like text editor designed for writing novels and larger projects of many smaller plain text documents. It uses its own flavour of Markdown that supports a meta data syntax for comments, synopsis, and cross-referencing between files. It's designed to be a simple text edi…
Looks really good. Like a simplified version of Scrivener, which is awesome. Would be awesome if I can import it to Scrivener and the other way around.
Scrivener is the novelist standard now isn't it?
Re: NovelWriter 1.0 – A markdown-like editor for writing novels
#16is author here? - Is it suitable for non-technical writers? is there any feedback on them baing able to use markdown, @pov tags etc? - did you try some commercial competitors? How would you compare? I understand scrivener is one popular option
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Re: NovelWriter 1.0 – A markdown-like editor for writing novels
#17Outside of the more technically inclined; Does anyone who is a long-form (novel) writer actually use markdown? Outside of blogging, which it was invented for and makes total sense for syntax conversion of free formed text to html is there any real use for it?
Obviously you don't have to use it if you don't want to, but it sort of feels odd to me that all these developers making writing/notes apps that neglect rich text editing entirely in favor of markdown simply because it's easy to implement. I am definitely tired of seeing my writing littered with a detritus of special characters when it's never going to get exported to anything other than text.
Re: NovelWriter 1.0 – A markdown-like editor for writing novels
#18Outside of the more technically inclined; Does anyone who is a long-form (novel) writer actually use markdown? Outside of blogging, which it was invented for and makes total sense for syntax conversion of free formed text to html is there any real use for it? Obviously you don't have to use it if you don't want to, but it sort of feels odd to me that all these developers making writing/notes apps that neglect rich te…
I think most authors don't write in richer text format than markdown.
Re: NovelWriter 1.0 – A markdown-like editor for writing novels
#19Outside of the more technically inclined; Does anyone who is a long-form (novel) writer actually use markdown? Outside of blogging, which it was invented for and makes total sense for syntax conversion of free formed text to html is there any real use for it? Obviously you don't have to use it if you don't want to, but it sort of feels odd to me that all these developers making writing/notes apps that neglect rich te…
I think most authors don't write in richer text format than markdown.
most authors write in Word, and use only one or two font variation bigger size for chapter titles).
Re: NovelWriter 1.0 – A markdown-like editor for writing novels
#20Outside of the more technically inclined; Does anyone who is a long-form (novel) writer actually use markdown? Outside of blogging, which it was invented for and makes total sense for syntax conversion of free formed text to html is there any real use for it? Obviously you don't have to use it if you don't want to, but it sort of feels odd to me that all these developers making writing/notes apps that neglect rich te…
I think most authors don't write in richer text format than markdown.
I think you're assuming and probably wrong.