Deckle

[brookter]

@xiamenese

(In the early days of the Scrivener forum, someone posted words to the effect that serious writers only worked with white characters on a blue background and that Scrivener was bound to fail because it didn’t meet that requirement!)

It was this gem, I think…

Really hating this program right now

I’m a professional writer who bought Scrivener just for the index cards feature, which works. However, the program looks more interesting than that, so I thought I’d delve in. Like every other writer, I use the white-text-on-blue-background feature that Jerry Pournelle got Microsoft to add to Word years ago. Since the Scrivener overview tutorial shows green text on black in Full Screen mode, and because I’ve stumbled on it once or twice on my own, I know it’s possible. It’s implementation is…

And my reply (blatant necropost, sorry…)

@brookter

Unfortunately my friend Mr WS Gilbert presents his apologies, but he has problems with his internet connection. He asked me to pass along his comment on this thread.

The Writer Most Professional

I am the very model of a writer most professional
My style can run from Hemingway to Oprah show confessional
My articles are cliché free and quite devoid of platitude
The New York Times puts my by-line on its front page with gratitude

I’ve written songs for singalongs and haircare advertorials
I wrote the elegiac text that graces war memorials
My spelling is exemplary my grammar quite majestical
I’d no more split infinitives than I would split my testicle.

He’d no more split infinitives than he would split his testicle.
He’d no more split infinitives than he would split his testicle.
He’d no more split infinitives than he would split his bestest testicle.

My friends Flaubert and Baudelaire have praised my writing to the skies
The harshest critics say that they have nothing they can criticise
And deadlines hold no fear for me, I will deliver right on cue
But only if you let me write exclusively in white on blue.

It’s true that green on black won’t do and black on white is just not right
If it’s not white on blue then poo! Invariably it turns out shite.