Comments on: Open Office to yWriter http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/11/13/open-office-to-ywriter/ Infinite Possibilities Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:10:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Eric http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/11/13/open-office-to-ywriter/comment-page-1/#comment-15684 Eric Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:42:37 +0000 http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/11/13/open-office-to-ywriter/#comment-15684 khristeena, have you tried the yWriter site? http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter.html khristeena, have you tried the yWriter site?

http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter.html

]]> By: khristeena http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/11/13/open-office-to-ywriter/comment-page-1/#comment-15651 khristeena Sun, 19 Apr 2009 13:25:46 +0000 http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/11/13/open-office-to-ywriter/#comment-15651 I've noticed this is an older thread, but I'm having trouble printing with ywriter and seeking help! I can't find anything online just yet and thought I'd try here. When I go to print, it asks me for which chapters, then generates it using explorer. Problem is the text is soooo tiny no one can read it! And nothing I do seems to change that. I'm getting kind of frustrated since no manual or forum seems to address this. If anyone can help, please do- I have a writers group meeting Wednesday night and wanted to take this revision! Thanks! I’ve noticed this is an older thread, but I’m having trouble printing with ywriter and seeking help! I can’t find anything online just yet and thought I’d try here. When I go to print, it asks me for which chapters, then generates it using explorer. Problem is the text is soooo tiny no one can read it! And nothing I do seems to change that. I’m getting kind of frustrated since no manual or forum seems to address this. If anyone can help, please do- I have a writers group meeting Wednesday night and wanted to take this revision! Thanks!

]]> By: Lee http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/11/13/open-office-to-ywriter/comment-page-1/#comment-1569 Lee Tue, 14 Nov 2006 13:57:39 +0000 http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/11/13/open-office-to-ywriter/#comment-1569 Sounds really good. I've been using Simon's Sonar program to track my submissions, looks like I'll be using yWriter too now. Sounds really good. I’ve been using Simon’s Sonar program to track my submissions, looks like I’ll be using yWriter too now.

]]> By: S William Shaw http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/11/13/open-office-to-ywriter/comment-page-1/#comment-1557 S William Shaw Tue, 14 Nov 2006 06:25:27 +0000 http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/11/13/open-office-to-ywriter/#comment-1557 Thanks Simon and Eric. I smell a DL in my future. Thanks Simon and Eric. I smell a DL in my future.

]]> By: Simon Haynes http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/11/13/open-office-to-ywriter/comment-page-1/#comment-1553 Simon Haynes Tue, 14 Nov 2006 02:52:53 +0000 http://www.redchurch.com/quantum/2006/11/13/open-office-to-ywriter/#comment-1553 Eric invited me over to comment. Yes, I used yWriter for all three Hal books, and am currently writing Hal 4 with yWriter 3 (beta) Autobackups: By default it just saves the latest version to YYYY-MM-DD whenever you edit a scene, but the option is there for this more comprehensive setup which takes a snapshot of the scene you're editing every x minutes, stored in a folder YYYY-MM-DD\(snapshot HH:MM).rtf (yW3 uses RTF files instead of plain text) It also has an importer which will break down a file marked with chapter 1, chapter 2, etc and turn the whole thing into a project. If you include scene breaks within the chapters (* * *) it will also generate the scenes for you. I added this so that someone working on a whole novel in Word or OO can just save to rtf and then import the thing with one click. You can also read in a single rtf file as individual scenes. Ywriter will copy the content to its own file storage, so it's non-destructive to the original. As for keeping things on track, I find the word schedule report absolutely indispensible for showing me what & how much I should be doing to meet any given deadline. Hope that clarifies a few things. Cheers Simon Eric invited me over to comment. Yes, I used yWriter for all three Hal books, and am currently writing Hal 4 with yWriter 3 (beta)

Autobackups: By default it just saves the latest version to YYYY-MM-DD whenever you edit a scene, but the option is there for this more comprehensive setup which takes a snapshot of the scene you’re editing every x minutes, stored in a folder YYYY-MM-DD\(snapshot HH:MM).rtf

(yW3 uses RTF files instead of plain text)

It also has an importer which will break down a file marked with chapter 1, chapter 2, etc and turn the whole thing into a project. If you include scene breaks within the chapters (* * *) it will also generate the scenes for you. I added this so that someone working on a whole novel in Word or OO can just save to rtf and then import the thing with one click.

You can also read in a single rtf file as individual scenes. Ywriter will copy the content to its own file storage, so it’s non-destructive to the original.

As for keeping things on track, I find the word schedule report absolutely indispensible for showing me what & how much I should be doing to meet any given deadline.

Hope that clarifies a few things.

Cheers
Simon

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