![]() Hopefully these things can easily and quickly be addressed with an update. Good news for current Ulysses for Mac users too. The Mac version has also been updated to version 2.0 and brings with it an all new look for Yosemite, a beautiful new dark mode, and tons more. Ulysses on the Mac was a great writing experience before. I do agree that there are different forms of writing. And some do indeed require more sophisticated tools, even more sophisticated than Mellel or (to some degree) MS Word. Some academic or technical writing will require FrameMaker, Tex/Latex, or some (customer, eventually) XML- or SGML-based authoring tool. Need tons of formulas, reliable and flexible running headers, multi-format citations, multiple content-tables (like table of figures, chapter tocs etc.), full control about index generation, conditional output and so on. Some 100% of OS X and 100% plus of iOS writing tools are out. On iOS that is not really a problem, as the devices are not meant or suitable for such tasks anyhow. The absence of truly professional editors on the Mac is a bigger problem. Unless you want to dive into Latex, running FrameMaker or some XML editor in Windows or Solaris is about the only choice.īut then, we talk about a tiny fraction of long form documents here. Most fiction, and even most more casual non-fiction writing does not require tools like that at all. As a matter of fact, most writing does not require much formatting at all. Most publishers demand plain text files, or minimum markup only. Markdown or HTML are plenty sufficient for that, and so are tools like Ulysses or Scrivener. Actually, I wrote my last project report (some 1,400 pages) exclusively in Byword on the iPad and just added some graphics and tables in InDesign at the very end.
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