It will have some rudimentary character formatting that will survive when you insert it into a Pages document started off one of those templates. However the final formatting is a manual process.Įxported output from Scrivener will most likely be in RTF format (you have other options). Scrivener is designed to export in a format that can be used by another word processor or page layout program so that you don't have to retype all the text. ![]() It will partially format itself but you will have to go through the entire thing. If I import my book into Pages into a book template, will the document automatically format itself, or will I have to go through the entire thing to make the corrections? I'm not a writer, but I've gotten a lot of use out of Pages, so I hope this helps. One good thing about this ability for a wirter, I would think, would be that you can set up your own section breaks to keep the readering turning the page. Like they said, Pages is excellent for final layout. My experience with novels was just to copy the text from a website (someone actually typed up the entire text of a book in HTML) and then reformat it so that it looked exactly like a real paperback would, headers, footers, fonts and all. It makes for a a great PDF export tool as well. Insert ->Bookmark is also another way to keep a sideline of important points in your text. If there's some detail you want to keep in mind for later, or you want to come back and find a way to add another idea in later, just highlighting a section of text and adding a comment (length is up to you) is an excellent tool. ![]() I've found this very helpful while writing papers and outlines. If you like seeing text that won't get printed, you can always Insert->Comment. Wikipedia has some excellent concise articles on all this stuff and comparisons of word processor features. Pages also lacks a lot of the features in the Appleworks word processor. iWork is supposed to be the successor but lacks a spreadsheet. It is good but looking a little ancient now. Keynote is a program for doing presentations - you wouldn't write a book in that.Īppleworks is a suite of office automation applications that is no longer being developed. They may have tried some of the others you are looking at. There are a couple of authors on this discussions area that use Pages. If you want final output that looks fantastic, then it is really good at that. If you are more interested in being able to capture and rearrange structure and ideas and want an application to assist, I would say that Pages is not the right thing. It does have comments which can be used to capture notes which are optionally printed but it is pretty rudimentary at the moment. It has almost nothing to capture conceptual structure, not even an outline mode. Pages is focussed more on the layout and appearance of the output. ![]() I'm not familiar with the other applications you refer to but just a quick glance at the web page for Scrivener shows that it has ways to encode a conceptual structure to your document and associate ideas with it that don't get printed.
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