Indeed, vive la difference, diversity of view and taste are a good thing.Īnnoying, you don’t say b_why_. So ‘writing’ is this context is an incompletely exact term. Writing is journal article is not the same as a grant application or commercial report, etc. Writing a novel is not the same as a scholarly monograph. At the extreme end of this game, those with the skills write their own tool do so: most of us mortals have to pick from what is available.Īnother important point when blithely discussing ‘writing’ is what sort_ of writing that means. It it is great for our personal style of writing but sucks at export in the needed (or-as often-mandated) export format, look further. What I take from the experience of (comparatively little) serious writing is take time to understand the writing and export processes of a tool. But I bailed on Scrivener for long form writing as the affordances of writing (input) were nerfed by inelegances of export. I’d concur with that Scrivener is good, especially for writing, and since I wrote my thesis Scrivener has (I believe made a Latex-based output possible for the non-computer scientist. I’d loved to have written it in Tinderbox but frankly all the extra I wanted (in the main complex bibliography /citation features) would be a pointless tax on Tinderbox users as a whole is implemented just for me. But it had typography features/affordances I needed-way beyond what Tinderbox with our without Markdown could offer. Having written a thesis recently in LaTeX, the experienced sucked. The problem is not with Tinderbox as such but your writing style being different to Tinderbox’s style with is (thankfully!) not Markdown-centric. If you want to write in Markdown, then look for a Markdown-centric app. With plain text, I don’t necessarily have to choose. On a side note, Marked2 can do transclusions as well if the link to the file is present, so even a plain text editor will work here.įor complex organization I like Scrivener.įor a beautiful environment with some organization, I like iAwriter. scriv file with Marked2, and the markdown will be rendered select the files you want to compile with compile in scrivener (you do not actually have to compile anything, just select the files).If you like working with markdown, Marked2 is a valuable application. Do not discount Scrivener’s ability to handle markdown( but you need Marked2). Scrivener’'s ability to organize information is exceptional. Scrivener is more complex and is suited to handle more long form writing. This application seems to grow on me with more time. With transclusion, you can come close to Scrivener’s “scrivenings”. It is a great tool for short form pieces. IA writer is a fantastic writing environment.
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