These settings are switchable using keystrokes, so you can quickly turn highlighting off when you move from editing to reviewing.ħ. You can also highlight the three current lines, or the entire current paragraph. The line currently being edited can be highlighted or rather, the other lines can be dimmed. A single keystroke will select a whole scene: useful when counting words.Ħ. Keystrokes allow you to move a scene up or down in the navigator and hence in the text.ĥ. If you move the mouse pointer to the left of the screen, you can access a navigation bar which shows the first line or two of every “scene” in your text, the start of a scene being definable by any string you choose. If you move the mouse pointer to the right of the screen, a scroll-bar appears.Ĥ. customizations of the display) and easily switch between them.ģ. You can define any number of “themes” (i.e. I have a Linux desktop and a Mac laptop.Ģ. It runs under Linux, Windows and Apple’s OS X. It has the following extra advantages for me:ġ. Find-and-replace (with regular expressions if possible).įocusWriter by Graeme Gott provides all this and much more.
This is most important to me, since plain text can easily be loaded into a tablet or e-reader, or converted (for example with jEdit) into html or simply edited with another app.Ĥ. Ability to load and save plain text, with normal access to the filing system. Choice of any installed display font, colours and spacing, plus automatic indentation of first line of paragraph.ģ.
#Focuswriter word count software
I think I have found the perfect software for writers – for this writer, at least.Ģ.
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