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I know this makes the third post about writing software, but I'm hoping this will be a new slant to it. You guys really talked up Scrivener so I went to look at it. But Scrivener is only for Mac, at least, that's what I saw. Can anyone recomend a similar program for Windows? Or point out where I could find Scrivener for Windows?

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Date: 2010-07-16 08:31 pm (UTC)
sweet_sparrow: Miaka (Fushigi Yûgi) looking very happy. (Geek)
From: [personal profile] sweet_sparrow
Oooh! That's a really smart solution! I hadn't thought of that! And it'd be easy enough to search for contractions too. Just change it to an apostrophe.

It works, yes. (I'd be worried if it didn't, really.) I always just took the whole-word-only search for granted. :/ (It's curious that both LSB and WC don't have the option, though. I wonder whether that's because it's very difficult to code or whether it's because there's not enough demand.)

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Date: 2010-07-16 08:37 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] paganpaul
Great, glad it works for you.

And yes, it is a serious nuissance to program that kind of stuff (I am a programmer). There's probably plenty of demand within the user-base, but with the (compared to MS Word) relatively low sales of writer's software, other things like bugfixes and new features and releases probably take precedence. MS has plenty of people to make things like that word-search. Writer's Café is written by 1 person who also writes other software (it is part of his living).
(I know this because I translated Writer's Café and the help files into Dutch.)

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Date: 2010-07-16 08:46 pm (UTC)
sweet_sparrow: Miaka (Fushigi Yûgi) looking very happy. (Having Fun)
From: [personal profile] sweet_sparrow
Fellow Dutchie! Hee!

Aaah. *nods* That makes sense. Thanks for indulging and clarifying my curiosity! ^-^

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Date: 2010-07-16 08:49 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] paganpaul
Hahaha! Wat grappig!

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Date: 2010-07-16 08:51 pm (UTC)
sweet_sparrow: Miaka (Fushigi Yûgi) looking very happy. (Having Fun)
From: [personal profile] sweet_sparrow
Ik kom echt bijna nooit Nederlanders tegen online... ^-^

(Translation - well, roughly - for curious non-Dutchies: I hardly ever encounter Dutch people online.)

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Date: 2010-07-16 08:59 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] paganpaul
Er zijn er genoeg hoor... Maar ik zoek ze niet echt op.

Plenty of them around... But I am not going out to find them.

Happy writing and a great weekend to all!

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