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.
v2.4 [Mar 1, 2013]
• 2.4.1 fixes a bug with installing 2.4 on OS X 10.6, and fixes several minor 2.4 bugs, including a bug whereby external references to files with spaces in their paths could not be opened. 2.4.1 also makes the following changes:
• "Show Titles in Scrivenings" has been moved to the Format > Options menu.
• Updated certain non-Retina toolbar items to match those used on Retina displays.
• Forward references are now supported in autonumbering.
• Renamed "Authorize Directory Access" to "Authorize Folder Access" for clarity.
• Removed MultiMarkdown to meet App Store sandboxing requirements (Scrivener can still use MultiMarkdown if it is installed separately by the user though).
• Minor changes to the backup folder defaults to meet App Store sandboxing requirements (you may be prompted to choose your backup folder the first time you launch this version as a result).
What Was New in 2.4:
• Scrivener is now fully Retina Display compatible (every icon and graphic has been recreated at twice the size to take full advantage of the Retina display).
• Added support for Regular Expressions in all find and replace features (Lion and above only).
• Many improvements and additions to Compile.
• Added full support for the Fountain screenplay syntax (http://fountain.io) to Import, Import and Split, Export, Compile and External Folder Sync.
• Added drag-and-drop support for Scapple notes (Scapple is our upcoming freeform mind-mapping-type app).
• The Scratch Pad can now be set up to use plain text, making it easy to sync scratch pad notes with iOS apps.
• Inspector comments and footnotes can now be zoomed with the text.
• Updated MultiMarkdown package to 3.7.
• Improved e-book export, in particular to accommodate Amazon's stricter Kindle formatting rules and to avoid iTunes Producer rejecting certain EPUB files.
• Fixed bug whereby Scrivener could stop saving documents that were part of a scrivenings session that had been open for more than two days.
• Over 100 other refinements and bug-fixes - for the full list, please see http://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivChangeList.php.
