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Author 10.0

Minimalist word processo

Category: Productivity
Price: Low
Popularity: Low
Version String: 10.0 (1312)
Release Date: 2024-09-26
Architecture: Intel & AppleSilicon(ARM)
Minimum OS: macOS 12.0
Vendor Name: The Liquid Information Company Limited
Homepage: [Mac App Store]

Version History 10.0 (1312)

Major new features to help you get to grips with large documents, including marking text for easier skimming, as well as Markdown support and export to LaTeX (beta).

Description:

A minimalist word processor with powerful tools, giving you greater control of your writing process.

• Quick Citation Creation & Check. Select text and cmd-T to add citations including automatic meta-information from books, web, YouTube videos, BibTeX copied information as well as manually add any further material.

• Instant Outline. Pinch to collapse the text using your trackpad to see just the headings.

• Cuttings. Cuttings: Everything you Cut (but not Copied) is remembered by Author. CMD-shift-v to see what you have Cut and choose what to paste.

• Supports images with complete citation information and internal links to them.

• Read/Edit Modes for specific interactions to make both modes more powerful and pleasant, such as spacebar to move down a screen in Read mode or select text and spacebar to have the text spoken.

• Warm background to reduce eye strain for Edit mode. Note that in full screen mode your eyes will quite quickly adjust to the cast so you will enjoy the benefit without really noticing anything different. native Mojave Dark Mode supported.

• If you only want to see sentences with a specific keyword, select the keyword cmd-f to hide all the sentences which do not have the keyword will be hidden. Click on a sentence to jump to it, cmd-f again or ESC to return to the regular view. cmd-G to do it aGain.

•All commands have easy to remember keyboard shortcuts and you can ctrl-click on text to check what options are available, such as cmd-1,2,3,4,5 to turn the text into headings.

• Only The Controls You Need, No Distractions. cmd- / cmd+ to scale all the text, you cannot change the size, colour or font of specific text in Author, only make it bold and italic, since Author is a writing application, not a layout application so therefore gives you less things to unproductively fiddle with.

• Modern Architecture makes Author VERY FAST and gives you auto saving and everything else you would expect from a modern, native macOS application including iCloud Drive (sync with Author iOS in the future).

• ESC to go into and out of full screen, which seems like a detail but is very helpful when going between focused writing and interacting with many documents.

• Useful drag-and-drop editing. In contrast to some popular word processors, drag-and-drop editing is actually a smooth experience.

• Integrated with the Liquid | Flow companion utility. Includes Search, References, Conversions, Translations and Share to WordPress and Medium and more. Select text and ctrl-click or fast keyboard shortcut to activate.

•Preferences to set fonts and ability to set monochrome for Dark mode.

• Export to PDF, Plain Text, RTF, & Word with the option of automatic addition of a cover page, appending of citations in a References section at the end of the document and choose the formatting of the citations in the document; (in brackets) or with superscript. Current exports only support visible links. Links on text will be supported in the future.

• Export to WordPress.

Support

Please feel free to contact me with questions, suggestions and of course, bug reports at frode@liquid.info https://twitter.com/liquidizer

Thank you for looking at Liquid | Author!

Frode Hegland
London