Edit, format and structure your text. Take notes, highlight important ideas, search themes using keywords, browse research materials, add images and tables, write comments and combine scenes into one text. Alter fonts, orientation and size. Save the output as PDF, RTF, DOC, HTML, or ePub.
Scrivener is a powerful tool developed by Literature & Latte and is used for helping writers to focus on starting a text. It has a modern look and a simple-to-use menu that will grant the users quick access to all of the features. It comes with an interactive tutorial that will help users get themselves familiar with the program; the interactive tutorial also provides valuable information about writing different types of texts. This feature-rich application comes with helpful predefined examples for various types of texts, intros and formulations.
The tool is highly customizable, as it allows the users to format their texts using various styles and fonts (basic text formatting tools); accessing the Preference window will open an additional window, where the program can be further customized. It provides the tools for auto-correcting texts, using the input settings and dictionaries, and allows the users to import and export plain texts to text files. What makes this piece of software different from other similar products is that it comes with an incorporated speaking tool that is able to read the text out loud.
In conclusion, you should give Scrivener a try when looking for a content-generation tool that will help when trying to write a large text.
v2.3 [Jun 28, 2012]
- Fully OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion-compatible, including support for GateKeeper.
- On OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, you can easily share your daily session goal via Twitter using the new icon in the Project Targets panel.
- On OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, if Growl isn't installed, target notifications will use Notification Center. (If you have Growl installed, you can still force Scrivener to use Notification Center by using the hidden preference "AlwaysUseNotificationCenter" - in Terminal, type "defaults write com.literatureandlatte.scrivener2.plist AlwaysUseNotificationCenter 1".)
- On OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, Quick Look gestures (three-finger taps by default) on the binder, corkboard, outliner, synopsis search results or references lists bring up a QuickReference or Quick Look panel for the tapped item. Other
- The $@ tag can now be used more than once in custom Compile replacements.
- Added new option, "Custom separator centering ignores indents", to the Options area of the Compile "Formatting" pane.
- Added option to "KindleGen" compile pane to save the KindleGen source files along with the .mobi file, for those who wish to tweak the HTML or other files manually.
- Made some improvements to "Capitalize 'i'" so that it now works in more situations but also avoids capitalising "i.e." as much as possible.
- Project completions now work in inspector comments and footnotes.
- You can now drag project completions between projects via the Auto-Complete List panel.
- Worked around an Apple text system bug that adds lots of extra spacing above images when a line height multiple is applied, so that images (and inline MathType equations) should now look much better. (Thanks to Martin at Nisus for the tip on the workaround.) The new behaviour can be turned off by setting the hidden default "SCRUseNSTextImageSpacing" to YES and restarting Scrivener.
- Zipped backups and project template creation now uses ditto instead of zip if the project contains any aliases, in order to preserve alias data. Bugs Fixed
- Fixed bug whereby, when informing you that you require Java to use the new .doc, .docx and .odt converters, Scrivener would not report the Java version you needed correctly, instead telling you that you had "%%JAVAVERSION".
- Fixed bug with new .doc, .docx and .odt importers that could cause a hang with certain files.
- Fixed bug that could cause slowdown when using fixed editor width with "Use fixed width" with "Center".
- Fixed drawing bug when using a fixed width editor, not centred, whereby the scroll view background colour would show through rather than the text background colour.
- Fixed bug in RTF export affecting right indents (which also affected .doc, .docx and .odt export using the new converters).
- Fixed bug that meant OPML files could not be imported into the Draft folder (unless you added the "opml" extension to the plain text import types Import/Export preferences).
- Fixed bug that could cause an error to get thrown while using Project Replace if custom meta-data was affected by the find-and-replace.
- Fixed bug whereby you could toggle the alignment controls in the formatting bar on and off.
- Fixed bug which could cause certain .doc and .docx files imported using the new converters to come in using the Symbol font and thus unreadable.
- Fixed bug whereby QuickReference panels, when floated above other windows, wouldn't participate in window cycling. This affected the main "Float Window" feature, too. (Fixed on 10.6 and above only, as older systems have no way of overriding the default behaviour of floating windows.)
- Fixed the script format converter panel (Documents > Convert > Script Format…) so that the elements of the selected format now display correctly.
- Fixed bug whereby applying a character preset to an entire paragraph would change the paragraph formatting too.
- Fixed crash that could occur when emptying the Trash and custom meta-data was visible in the inspector.
- Fixed a bug in the numbering of nested lists in HTML export.
