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PROBLEM

gagmaba — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:03:37 -0500

Hi, there

These days I discovered WriteRoom and thought it was worth giving it a try, so I am using the 30-days trial version.Until yesterday I was working on a chapter of my thesis using the WriteRoom. When I finished I saved the text in a file and today it is unreadable. It is a lot of work to be lost. Can anyone help me with that?

Spelling in WriteRoom

Morten — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 08:52:00 -0500

Any chance of getting other languages in the spell check in WriteRoom? I figured it just ran on the OS spell check but WriteRooms spell check is still English even though my OS spell check is another language.

Other info: Running Leopard. OS language English. Danish spell check via cocoAspell.

Thanks

Hypertext links?

Andrew Coyne — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:00:24 -0500

I notice that WriteRoom will recognize links, if you cut and paste them in. But there seems no way of creating them on the fly. I know we're all about simplicity here, but this would be a very useful, non-bloating addition, IMHO.

email address has changed

Mark Carpenter — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 08:47:37 -0500

The email address I had when I registered WriteRoom I no longer have. How can I get the new license information which the new version of WriteRoom I have downloaded is asking me for?

Thanks. Mark

WriteRoom-3.0-Development-57

jesse — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:53:17 -0500

Edit Another minor update. Now WriteRoom will correctly open PHP files that have HTML embedded.

This is a minor update that fixes the text cursor size (normal cursor, block cursor was already working) when editing a document that has extra line spacing.

Download WriteRoom 3.0 Development

WriteRoom-3.0-Development-55

jesse — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:20:39 -0500

Edit For some reason the initial version 55 release was broken. But I've just uploaded a new version of 55 that seems to work. So please try re-downloading it. Thanks for everyone's bug reports.

This is a minor update that I think should fix the crash on startup problem that some people have experienced.

This release has been replaced by Development 56.

Where's the Em Dash shortcut?

Alan — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:54:47 -0500

Hi,

I'm evaluating WriteRoom, and I've found it a slick piece of software that does almost everything I need. However, it isn't obvious to me how to create an em dash. Em dashes are an important staple of writing, and in MS Word they are easily created: type two hyphens in a row, click the space bar, and the word processor fuses the two hyphens into a single em dash. Other word processors have similar shortcuts.

Apologies if I'm being an idiot, and am missing WriteRoom's em dash shortcut; but if no such shortcut exists, I would regard it as a fairly glaring omission from WriteRoom's current arsenal of features. Yes, I can copy & paste em dashes between MS Word and WriteRoom (provided I have 'Rich Text' enabled), but that is cumbersome and contrary to the whole purpose of WriteRoom: efficient and distraction-free writing.

This isn't pedantry; I use em dashes as often as I use parentheses. Having no shortcut to create one feels equivalent to an ability to produce question marks, semi-colons, or other common symbols. I hope I'm wrong, and that there is a shortcut (or perhaps one in the pipeline?). Otherwise it's back to MS Word I skulk!

Cheers, Al

Write room is great, except

MichaelE — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:15:18 -0500

when it installed it took over all the docs that I want to open with other programs, Pages and open office. How do I get back control? I tried teling the mac to use a different prog but it still uses writeroom in any doc recieved in MAIL. Thanks

Cursor size question

MattM — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:47:27 -0500

Hi, when I change my line spacing to 2x, I find that the cursor suddenly doubles in length. Is there a way to keep the cursor at the original size?

Thanks

Typewriter scrolling in editing

Kristjan Kannike — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:44:55 -0500

I love typewriter scrolling and it had a major part in why I bought Writeroom. However, it can be pretty distracting when editing as opposed to writing a document, as the cursor, whenever it is during scrolling, jumps into the middle of the screen once I begin to change something.

I think the most unobtrusive solution would be to keep the cursor, while scrolling with arrow keys, in the middle of the screen all the time, and let the text slide by.