![]() ![]() Make the word count status bar always visible, and themable too. For example, most “minimalist word processors” won’t let me italicize a word – that’s just critical when copying and pasting stuff into Word, which, let’s face it, is what any Editor is going to use to review one’s work.Īnyway, I would like to humbly make a few suggestions for future versions:ġ. I’m a professional writer who really appreciates the simplicity of FocusWriter, yet it still has most of the features I need to earn a living. I just wanted to let you know that FocusWriter is the program I’ve been desiring for the past few years. Thanks again for such a wonderful program. It seems to be reasonably random, but it does happen regularly. * every so often, after typing, I hear a faint click sound. * This is stretching the feature-set somewhat, but perhaps you could have a document merge feature for people that write their chapters or sections in multiple files? It’d be much easier than opening them all and then copy/pasting them together. * perhaps a popup file list when you ctrl-tab with multiple documents? Also, this should work like all other programs – middle click closes the tab/file. * New tab/file button on the bottom popup bar. These could be docked at the bottom, perhaps, so the top part could be used for the aforementioned outline info. I’d like to see the find and replace dialogs embedded in this and perhaps the timers dialog as well. * I’d like the option to auto-indent the first line in a paragraph. When read in another RTF program, it would be visible as normal. It could be a toggle so that you could hide/show it at will. Perhaps, when you create a Heading of type Notes (the text could be whatever you wish), anything indented or a list element beneath it could be collapsed and hidden by clicking on the heading. I was thinking about the other poster’s suggestion regarding an outline and I thought this could go hand-in-hand with that. I like to be able to insert notes into my text, specifically at the beginning of a chapter or section. * Notes + autocollapsing – I need to explain this one. * automatic contrasting color for highlighting text, based on your text color * I’d like the mis-spelled words to have the option to have a solid line, squiggly line, or a highlighted background with your color choice Preferably, this would be the same colors as the theme (or perhaps it could be customized?) * the option to overlay the bottom progress information on an always-visible bar on the bottom of the page. * Preferences and Themes buttons on top bar ![]() * Quick theme switch dropdown – like above, but with your saved themes on a drop-down menu * Quick theme – on the top bar, have foreground/background/text buttons which would drop down colors to quick-switch to I’ve already requested a few of these, but thought I should post them here so that others can comment or perhaps expand on them. Whether you will concider this or not, I am already very thankful for FocusWriter the way it is. If it’s not possible I will still use this wonderful processor as is, in conjunction with other outlining software. Besides, this may be outside the scope of what you want FocusWriter to do. I have no knowledge of programming, so I don’t know if this could be done in FocusWriter. Maybe this could be done in text mode too, using some sort of wiki syntax (like in Zim or Wikidpad). When working on a novel this could be used of course to quickly navigate the text itself, but also to help navigate a large body of research text. When writing a novel it is nicer to have the whole text in one piece so you can see everything in context. The problem with wiki-like note-taking and outliners like Zim or Wikidpad is that they make separate files or pages for each note. This would make it very easy to navigate and oversee large texts. I’m thinking of a widget that can be placed either to the left or right of the editing area.Each heading in the currently open tab would be there and if clicked, it should bring the cursor to the section in question. I am wondering if there is any chance a of including an outlining function. There is, however one feature that would make it even better for the creative process. Wow, FocusWriter keeps getting better and better! It’s already the most beautiful word processor ever and with the addition of RTF support a while ago it’s become a very useful tool for creative writers. ![]()
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