It’s pretty obvious that AS is intended for “straight text”, whether fiction or essays or whatever a writer finds it appropriate for. Styles are the obvious solution to those needs.Īs a writer with decades of experience on dozens of word processing platforms, I’m well aware of many appropriate tools for different kinds of writing. And none of that is practical without being able to do it with a very few keystrokes or clicks. This is done with formatting, with leading or paragraph spacing, with font changes, etc. And it’s a very far cry from the hierarchical style-sheet functionality of a full-blown word processor – I don’t want or need that in AS.īut I do need to be able to quickly and easily italicize paragraphs among normal paragraphs, create a few headings, and allow certain characters to be temporarily set apart from the rest of the text. I’d be quite happy with 3-4 definable styles, which is not a major departure from the current structure and capability of the program. Darren has already acknowledged that the novel I’m currently working on is larger than his own current AS projects, and my attempts to use AS in that project has brought to light a few important features that are quite useful – even essential – for long fiction.įiction takes many forms, and it’s not unusual to require some structure within a “scene”.
Supporting a few rudimentary styles isn’t even vaguely comparable to Word or InDesign functionality. And I appreciate that orientation very much, which is why I’m working with it.īut as a fiction writer, I make good use of a small amount of formatting. Yes, I’m aware of the novel / fiction / narrative focus of this app.
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