![]() ![]() ![]() Besides vastly improving the full-screen environment and broadening WriteRoom’s word processing chops, Hog Bay has implemented an extension for Cocoa applications that basically turns WriteRoom into an extension of every editing environment on your Mac (well, unless you’re still stuck using Carbon-based editors like Microsoft Word or BBEdit).Īfter installing the optional “Edit in WriteRoom” plugin from within WriteRoom’s preferences, any time you encounter an editable text view in a Cocoa application you’ll find a new “Edit in WriteRoom” menu item in the application’s Edit menu. (Version 1.0 is still available as freeware, though.) In early December, Hog Bay released a beta of WriteRoom 2.0, which implements what could be a killer feature for users like me. Man, did this app grow up quick! For one thing, it pretty quickly went from being freeware to being shareware. One thing that looks promising is WriteRoom’s extensibility through scripts and plugins, a large number of which are already available on the Hog Bay Software’s website. Whether WriteRoom has enough of the tools a writer needs to do his/her job is yet to be seen… its emphasis on simplicity is good as long as it’s not too simple. ![]() Aperture is a prominent example of this, and Aperture’s little brother, iPhoto, has a similar implementation. WriteRoom implements a new concept for text editing that some other Mac apps have moved to lately-letting users work in full-screen mode without distractions from other user-interface elements or applications. ![]()
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