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A week of intermittent attempts at JT-8 on my ham radio failed to make any contacts. Not a single one.
Introduction
WordPress’ WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) view is great for simple posts. With it, I can dash off a few paragraphs, throw in an image or two, emphasize some words and bold-face others, and hit Publish. Voila, I’ve posted my opinion!
What is Scrivener?
Scrivener is a set of computer tools for organizing, writing, editing, and publishing predominantly “text” works.
Metadata describes or points to other data. In Scrivener, the metadata variable <$author> is the name for a project’s author. In my case, that’d be E D Skinner. There’s also metadata for the name of the current project, <$projectname>. It contains the name of the project-its filename-when it was created.
Introduction
Over thousands of years, storytellers have learned two things about people:
A Simple Book
Let’s say we just want to create a simple book, nothing fancy, with Scrivener. We have three chapters named In The Beginning, The Middle, and It End’th.
There’s a Very Good Reason
I started re-reading “The Compile Format Designer” chapter in the Scrivener Manual (Scrivener, Help -> Scrivener Manual, chapter 24) today.
What is WYSIWYG
If you know WYSIWYG, What You See Is What You Get, you’ll remember that it promised to put the same thing on paper that you saw on the screen. That is, whatever your text looked like on the computer’s LCD, that’s what it’d look like on paper.
You may know these adages.
- It’s what you do, not what you say.
- Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
- Seek and ye shall find.
- Actions speak louder than words.
- Practice makes perfect.
- A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- A thing begun is half done.
- Beggars can’t be choosers.
- Better to wear out than to rust out.
Fiction writers have a similar one.
