Dictionaries, thesaurii-This is a relief, because they are just more distractions when what you are trying to do is write.
You can turn the iPad sideways, in which case you’ll get a longer line, and you can go into “focus” mode. Formatting-there are only two ways to change the writing display of Writer.You can type in ALL CAPS if you need some emphasis, and of course you’ve got all the standard characters in a typical set, so you could ornament your writing with asterisks if you wanted to but then you’d be missing the whole point of Writer, wouldn’t you? There is no italic, no bold, no superscript, strikeout, or anything else. It’s easy to read from 6 feet away, and instantly legible when you’re writing. It spaces out to about 9-10 words per line, which is ideal for both visibility and readability. It’s a monospaced font that sits perfectly on the iPad writing screen. Fonts-Well, of course you get the one font, Nitti Light created and optimized for iPad by the type wizards at Bold Monday.Writer eliminates all functions except well, writing. Click to enlargeUnlike other programs that try to lure you with a set of features that will appeal to the greatest number of potential buyers, Reichenstein and his team have taken a different approach. Note the menu bar with documents, add, email and copy functions and stats on reading time and character count. After you’ve finished the writing, you send your text to a formatting environment, InDesign say, or Word. Writer separates writing from formatting, and proves that combining them didn’t really help either one. It’s pretty hard to focus on the words themselves if you keep worrying if your text should be fully justified or rag right, if you think it might look better in Chicago instead of Verdana, if you want to see what your subheads look like bold and centered instead of all caps and flush left. What you need to write well is a spartan setting that allows you to fully concentrate on your text and nothing but your text. The key to good writing is not that magical glass of Bordeaux, the right kind of tobacco or that groovy background music. Here’s what Reichenstein says on the iA website: Using the iPad for its immersive and intimate interface, he’s created a new word processor totally unlike anything else I’ve seen. Reichenstein looked at the process of writing and the tools available to writers. Now, many years after the disappearance of those old arguments, Oliver Reichenstein, partner in Information Architects (iA), one of the premier web design firms in the world, has conjured an entirely new angle on the subject. But the distracting mass of images, overlapping windows, videos and everything else cluttering our screens these days is a direct result. Well, we all know the rush to graphical interfaces won because they’re easier for most people to use.
Or Microsoft Word, which came from the graphical user interface, where every pixel was independent and you could show how your text would look when printed out, the fonts and sizes more or less realistic. Was it the character-mode screen, like you got with Word Perfect? A black screen, monospaced green or amber or white letters. Remember the time before Windows? Back in the dawn of word processing software-before everyone used MS Word-there was heated discussion about which kind of tool produced better writing.
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