Comments on: DevonThink’s Free WordService & line endings http://www.viewfromthedock.com/2008/02/devonthinks-free-wordservice-and-line-endings/ mac-centric notes, reviews, tips, etc. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:05:28 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ian Beck http://www.viewfromthedock.com/2008/02/devonthinks-free-wordservice-and-line-endings/comment-page-1/#comment-116 Ian Beck Sun, 24 Feb 2008 06:45:58 +0000 http://www.viewfromthedock.com/2008/02/22/devonthinks-free-wordservice-and-line-endings/#comment-116 TextSoap is one of those apps whose usefulness was not immediately apparent to me. Then I started to use it. I need to remember to post my library of custom cleaners for download sometime. They'd probably be useful for other people, too. As far as creative writing apps, you'd probably be better off doing Scrivener vs. StoryMill (nee Avenir). Although I'm completely biased (I've been beta testing and hanging out with the StoryMill crowd for some time), my impression is that Scrivener is by far the most popular of these apps, followed by StoryMill, and then CopyWrite, Jer's, etc. And I'll leave it at that. If the Scrivener forums were online, I'd link to my comparison of the two (I don't want to clutter up your comments with unrelated blathering), but they're not. Oh well. Glad you enjoy Tagamac! Here's to the both of us somehow making it in this cruel world as authors! :-D TextSoap is one of those apps whose usefulness was not immediately apparent to me. Then I started to use it. I need to remember to post my library of custom cleaners for download sometime. They’d probably be useful for other people, too.

As far as creative writing apps, you’d probably be better off doing Scrivener vs. StoryMill (nee Avenir). Although I’m completely biased (I’ve been beta testing and hanging out with the StoryMill crowd for some time), my impression is that Scrivener is by far the most popular of these apps, followed by StoryMill, and then CopyWrite, Jer’s, etc.

And I’ll leave it at that. If the Scrivener forums were online, I’d link to my comparison of the two (I don’t want to clutter up your comments with unrelated blathering), but they’re not. Oh well.

Glad you enjoy Tagamac! Here’s to the both of us somehow making it in this cruel world as authors! :-D

]]> By: chezfugu (admin) http://www.viewfromthedock.com/2008/02/devonthinks-free-wordservice-and-line-endings/comment-page-1/#comment-113 chezfugu (admin) Sat, 23 Feb 2008 08:14:39 +0000 http://www.viewfromthedock.com/2008/02/22/devonthinks-free-wordservice-and-line-endings/#comment-113 I've heard of TextSoap but never tried it. Thanks for the great tip — I'm downloading the trial now! By the way, I enjoy reading <a href="http://tagamac.com/" title="Tagamac" rel="nofollow">Tagamac</a> and just discovered <a href="http://beckism.com/" title="Beckism.com" rel="nofollow">your other site</a>. I, too, enjoy creative writing and aspire to earn a living wage writing someday (which I gleaned from your site). I'm eager to delve into reviews of Mac writing apps soon. I think I'll start with Scrivener vs Copywrite. I’ve heard of TextSoap but never tried it. Thanks for the great tip — I’m downloading the trial now! By the way, I enjoy reading Tagamac and just discovered your other site. I, too, enjoy creative writing and aspire to earn a living wage writing someday (which I gleaned from your site). I’m eager to delve into reviews of Mac writing apps soon. I think I’ll start with Scrivener vs Copywrite.

]]> By: Ian Beck http://www.viewfromthedock.com/2008/02/devonthinks-free-wordservice-and-line-endings/comment-page-1/#comment-112 Ian Beck Sat, 23 Feb 2008 07:50:19 +0000 http://www.viewfromthedock.com/2008/02/22/devonthinks-free-wordservice-and-line-endings/#comment-112 It isn't free, but <a href="http://unmarked.com" rel="nofollow">TextSoap</a> is far superior for a large variety of this kind of task. The contextual menu in the Deluxe version has become a standby for me. The ability to define regex-based custom cleaners isn't to be sneezed at, either. I use TextSoap a lot for a number of web related tasks, such as converting rich text to HTML, cleaning up malformed HTML into XHTML, etc. Amazingly useful tool. It isn’t free, but TextSoap is far superior for a large variety of this kind of task. The contextual menu in the Deluxe version has become a standby for me.

The ability to define regex-based custom cleaners isn’t to be sneezed at, either. I use TextSoap a lot for a number of web related tasks, such as converting rich text to HTML, cleaning up malformed HTML into XHTML, etc. Amazingly useful tool.

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