And they need to make it happen on the iPad.
Thanks Jaysen; so that’s +1.
BTW, I also have ideas for better icons…
I was thinking about that. I think icons need to be scalable from 1 pixel to infinity. Every icon should be customizable and the included icon set should satisfy all known religious, political and emotional needs. They must be high contrast for the visually impaired but not offensive to the sighted. The artistic …
I am now tired of thinking for the week. Good night.
Because as an alpha-decanted man I’d go mad if I had to do epsilon semi-colon work.
BOOM BOOM!
Resisting urge to make bad colon jokes. GAH!!!
There are good ones?
(Just asking, no need to demonstrate.)
ps
Good colons?
My suggestion for what Scrivener needs to make it into a fully professional writer’s tool:
Auto-orientation of Chinese text: for Traditional Chinese vertical right-to-left; for Simplified Chinese horizontal left-to-right.
Mark
Mark
You’ve missed the bit about :top-to bottom upside down; inside-out, and back-to front. May as well have 'em do a proper job, eh?
vic
And you cut out the bit about
when not even the Chinese do
and yet, what do you have in your signature? Tsk Tsk!
And my suggestion fits the requirement of 15 words …
Mark
LiTerAry AutO-coMplEte:
ReaL-tiMe auTo-cOmpLetiOn oF seNteNceS drAwn FroM gReaTesT liTerAtuRe daTabAse wiTh opTioNal peRsoNal StyLe wOrd SubStiTutiOn.
I can think of no single function for Scrivener which could so clearly catapult it from an application which has only a single user (albeit with multiple personalities) to the near-perfect app for screenwriters – sure to see widespread adoption by the industry, not to mention universal adoption by NaNoWriMo contestants.
gR
Example:
You type: IT WAS
Default Suggestion: IT WAS the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Blackadder, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way - in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
Same for Japanese, determining the user’s intent from the content and placing furigana correctly.
Katherine
There’s the difference: in Japanese it’s the content that determines; in Chinese, it’s typically the character set. But to make sure that this meets the rules of the contest, we have to insist that for Traditional Chinese and for Japanese in vertical mode, the flow of Scrivener is also vertical, with the binder at the top and the inspector, etc. at the bottom, with cork-board cards rotated 90º clockwise, and auto-rotation of an external rotatable monitor.
Mark
Oh dear, Mr Mark.
His Lordship is much perturbed by your rejoinder to his, [criminally witty, (his words)] response to your original post.
I take this opportunity to point out, that, in this instance, Mr Mark, like you, I am an interpreter/translator, and of necessity, a censor. I translate from, Vic-kish vernacular, to language that those of moderately delicate sensibilities can tolerate.
Tis not your imputations of his abandonment, of, or, failure to embrace, the sentiments expressed by his choice of signature, that pushes his nibs’ buttons. Good lord, no! A dearth of integrity in his dealings with the world is self evident, at least it is to me. No. Tis the lack of a, ‘Ahghh hahahaaaa he he ho hahahah!‘-ish element in your response, that rankles in this case.
Also ( I am pushing my abilities as a translator/censor to the limits here). He insists, that onboard Scrivener, the crimes of pedanticism and anal-retentiveness, are punishable by keelhauling. If he had his way, however, he would prelude that event, with a 24/7, month long , continuous viewing of: youtube.com/watch?v=TOVSp-fYUQc But, that was before he read Katherine’s post.
Katherine’s presence, always has a calming affect on our subject, such is his admiration for her. Imagine then, how he must have felt, to learn that she, Katherine, was familiar with Furigana, an ageing, retired stripper, who’s only stage props were fox furs (fake), and who periodically, graces the inmates of the Red Lion, with her presence, in the company of her Rastafarian toy boy boyfriend, an imbiber and purveyor of the holy herb. He also sells pirated DVDs of her final performance.
Saints preserve us! I seem to have seriously offtopicked. 
Do take care
Fluff
Dear Fluff,
I live in the Land of the Great Firewall, where "Tsk tsk! … 
" is as good as an outright “Bwahahaha”. Subtlety is the watchword. I was reliably told last night that my hosts here are adepts at reading the least twitch on an interlocutor’s face, as overt demonstration of affect is socially unacceptable.
The other result of living behind the Great Firewall is that I am unable to watch the flood of whatever from YouTube that fills these fora, or to visit many other links. Please help me understand if this is an advantage or a disadvantage; only one of your perspicacity can do so, I believe.
With respect.
Mark
Advantage Mr X.
Dear Fluff,
I live in the Land of the Great Firewall, where "Tsk tsk! … " is as good as an outright “Bwahahaha”. Subtlety is the watchword. Ah, ‘subtlety’. Yet another one of vic-k’s non-attainments. Once again, pulling out all the stops, apropos my abilities as a translator/censor, vic-k, exhibiting his tenuous/non grasp of the art of subtlety, has just expressed a desire for a Great Firewall, to put up between the viewers and all the crap Reality TV shows, currently available over here.
I was reliably told last night that my hosts here are adepts at reading the least twitch on an interlocutor’s face, as overt demonstration of affect is socially unacceptable. An apt description of the relationship twixt barstaff and clientel/inmates of the Red Lion.
The other result of living behind the Great Firewall is that I am unable to watch the flood of whatever from YouTube that fills these fora, or to visit many other links. A situation soon to be remedied by your upcoming sojourn in the Mother Country,is it not?
Please help me understand if this is an advantage or a disadvantage; only one of your perspicacity can do so, I believe. That depends upon whether or not you are prey to masochistic proclivities. What is presently denied you, is the theatrical representation by the Tiger Lillies, of Heinrich Hoffman’s, Struwwelpeter. Viewed once? Facinating. Nonstop 24/7 for a month? Who knows. I imagine you would become eligible for a bed in the good Doctor Hoffman’s asylum.
Take care
Fluff
We have been demanding a Beer Dispensing Utility since Scrivener Gold.
Try grovelling.
He did. Haven’t you ever wondered why there is a dart through his head?