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[lassarina]

FUCK YOU, Adobe. Your software has just as many goddamn tentacles as Apple's and they are even more fucking impossible to remove. FAIL.

*stomps off in annoyance to go do something more productive, like watch TV*

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[adamjury]

Yeah, Scrivener is awesome. I don't know if it will easily import LSB projects, but it can import most common document formats. It would probably be a total pain in the ass to try and use both of them to work on the same project, but Scrivener is designed so you can write outside of it, import into it, and export out of it to work on it in other apps easily.

that's my solution for not getting annoyed by Adobe apps installing toolbars in MS Word ... I use Word as little as possible. ;-) Actually, I do almost all my writing in a plain text editor called TextWrangler. System-wide spellchecking makes writing in a text editor the preferable way for me.

xJournal works peachily for me for LJ updates, but some people who don't like to hand-write HTML don't like it so much.

On the web front, the only stuff I've used lately is Dreamweaver and Coda. Coda is very nice. A little pricy if you're not making money on the web, but it's superbly designed and supports lots of different work styles.

[Also, that's something else that's generally good about Mac shareware -- 30 day evaluations are the norm, and they aren't "nagware" like a lot of Windows programs.]

[lassarina]

The reason I like Semagic is cross-posting - I use both LJ and IJ and will be using Dreamwidth when that is in open beta, so I need the ability to post to multiple journals at the same time.

Since I started really working in Liquid Story Binder I think I will be using that for all my long projects, but I'm constrained a little bit by what I can use at work (i.e. MS Office or nothing) and I'm just....very accustomed to using MS Word for everything. I can make it sit up and do tricks (in fact, the removal of this toolbar is the *one thing* I have not been able to make Word do that I wanted it to).

LSB uses .rtf or .txt for all its files, which is awesome and very friendly to accessing your work again later; however, the problem would be making all of my planning notes and such jump easily between Scrivener and LSB. However, the LSB Yahoo Group indicates that it runs just fine on WinE both in Mac and Linux, so that's pretty awesome.

[adamjury]

By WinE, you just mean Wine, right? -- http://www.winehq.org/

[Not trying to nitpick, just was a bit confused by your previous reference to it.]

I suspect that MarsEdit, my preferred blog editor, will also hook into all the systems built from LJ's codebase.

[lassarina]

Ah, yes. I had previously seen people spell it the other way. Clearly I am wrong. Sorry about that.

Interesting! I shall have to investigate. pooka_madness informed me the other day that there was a new client for Mac that does all the things I want from Semagic, so that's really awesome.