Scrivener 3 is on the way…

Posted by Dr Andus
Dec 3, 2017 at 05:40 PM

bobmclain wrote:

>Word handles large documents, including ones with all the complexities
>you list, just fine.

Well, it depends what you mean by “handling.” It didn’t meet my definition. Partly it was the EndNote add-on that slowed things down, but even the time it takes to save a large file, crashes etc. just made it unusuable for my use case.

>After editing in Word, I import documents into Adobe Indesign for
>layout, typography, etc. - but I don’t think anyone would seriously
>recommend InDesign for *writing* a book.

I wasn’t suggesting that either. What I’m saying is that Word is several tools rolled into one for different stages of the outlining, writing, editing, formatting, and typesetting processes, and it does not equally excel at all those functions.

There can be benefits to disaggregating those roles and using more specialist software for each of those stages.