Franz Grieser
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Stephen
>An opinion no one will agree with - I think for a large scale non-fiction writing project,
>the best writing environment is MS Word, particularly its latest incarnation. Of
>course you wou...
Hi.
I think I should add two things concerning Ideamason. I wrote:
>One more thing: You should have a fast Windows machine for
>Ideamason 3.1, or a fast graphical adapter. IM3.x uses a lot of windo...
Thomas
>you were a proponent of IdeaMason.
>What made you to switch to Mac/Scrivener, if I can ask?
I have to use Windows machines for my work. And there I use Ideamason for non-fiction projects ...
Hugh.
We seem to have similar preferences. I also use Scrivener on my Mac (I also thought about recommending it here).
Franz
Cassius
>I'm about to start writing a book, if I can ever get the energy to be in a non-prone
>position. The book (I sure hope it's longer than a pamphlet!) will have a very short
>bibliography (...
Cassius.
Thanks for the info.
Franz
Cassius
>See more at
>http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/news.php?show_news=1 .
>
>Maybe GrandView will arise in its full glory.
Just for curiosity's sake: Why do you need Dosbox for running Grandvie...
Cassius
>So, it seems that one has, perhaps, four choices:
>1. Stay with software
>that has a long-term future, that is, it can be expected to have future updates to keep
>it current with new ver...
Infoselect - sorting bin
2/13/2007
Daly
>Franz, please forgive my delay in responding -- an oversight on my part.
No problem :-)
>You get the
>sorting bin by using Control F6.
>
>Once you have the sorting bin you can drag topics
...
Infoselect - sorting bin
2/8/2007
Daly.
In the ADM thread, you mentioned the sorting bin in Infoselect.
>>I cannot believe I am saying this, but if InfoSelect had a reliable set of metadata columns,
>>hoisting, and cloning, I would...
Outliner to find associations
1/18/2007
Stephen
>I wonder if this is a facility that Tinderbox (for the Mac) has...
I am afraid Tinderbox does not have that capability. (at least, I couldn't find it - speaking about the current 3.6.1 rel...
Outliner to find associations
1/18/2007
Sebastien
>What I would love is an outliner able to propose me *associations* on the
>fly. Indeed, when I write, I constantly gather some keywords out of my new text and use
>them to do a manual se...
Ideamason 3.0 released
1/17/2007
Hi.
Ideamason 3 has just been released.
I have been involved in beta testing over the last 2 weeks, and I must say - once again - that the developers have been extraordinarily responsive to suggesti...
What publishing software do you use?
1/13/2007
Stephen.
>>I work for a publisher. We do not do our own typesetting, but farm it out to pros. Most of them, it seems, are shifting to InDesign (from Quark), and I know for a fact that it can accept l...
What publishing software do you use?
1/13/2007
Cassius.
>>A suggestion which you must know: Try asking book publishers, particularly ones who sometimes publish authors’ works “as-is” without typesetting (i.e., in the file format the author sent)...
What publishing software do you use?
1/13/2007
Graham.
Thanks for the links.
>>On Open Office, and I suspect you were unlucky with it, as it has a reputation of being more stable with long documents than Word.
In fact, I was completely surprise...
What publishing software do you use?
1/12/2007
Hi.
There is one thing I forgot: The software should run on Windows or Mac OS X (either System 9 or 10.4).
Thanks, Franz
What publishing software do you use?
1/12/2007
Hi.
This may be a bit off-topic (OTOH, I am sure a lot of people here create output that goes to a printer or to a web site): What kind of publishing tools do you use?
I am particularly interested ...
Starting fresh
1/10/2007
Hi.
>- Zoot: my favorite means of
>gathering random bits of information
>- OneNote 2007 when it comes out: for
>assembling data into projects
>- Brain Storm: for rapid note-taking and brain
>storm...
New previews for Ideamason 3.0
12/12/2006
Hi.
Masonware just added a couple of new presentations on their website showing the new search feature and a number of extensions to the sources/material handling features: http://www.ideamason.com/p...
Discount for Tinderbox
11/21/2006
Hi.
Eastgate offers a Thanksgiving special:
Tinderbox costs $149 (instead of $192)
Storyspace costs $195 (instead of $295)
Upgrade (for either tool): $77
Franz
Fallows Article on Info Managers
11/19/2006
Stephen
>I don't think Mac users on the whole are objective observers and commentators on
>their computers' performance.
This may be true of Mac users who never ever looked at other systems.
I d...
Fallows Article on Info Managers
11/17/2006
Stephen
>and no one, including James,
>mentions that OS X is painfully slow and not terribly stable, traits which
>considerably diminishing any application it runs.
Beg your pardon. That's nonse...
How I use Ideamason - and why
10/28/2006
Cassius
>While Idea Mason looks very interesting and the price appears quite reasonable, I
>suspect that many of us don't have the required software and maybe not the required
>hardware.
>
>For exa...
How I use Ideamason - and why
10/17/2006
Hi.
I forgot to mention one more reason why I prefer a word processor such as OpenOffice.org Writer or Word: These two apps have a Compare Documents feature that is useful for finding out what change...