I like the simplicity and if I were only interested in exporting to. It looks like I should be able to export easily into epub and mobi formats but I'd also like to be able to export a file that is print ready.Īfter re-reading your response and spending a little more time with it I realize that I cannot do what I want with Storyist. I guess the larger question is, will Storyist allow me to create a file that is suitable for my final book output? I'm not looking for advanced typesetting features but I don't want to have to write in one program and then export into another to prepare the print version of my books. I used Notebook entries for pages without page numbers and I created multiple manuscripts to solve the page numbering problem but haven't figured out how to end up with a single file after exporting. I've been experimenting with different methods to get the custom page settings but haven't figured out how to export successfully yet. Just keep a template in Pages with them already set up.Ĭan't help with the rest, but Storyist is a great program and its integration with the iPad app is seamless, so you’ll find it worthwhile to stick with it through the learning curve. Headers and footers probably will, but those are easily reimposed. Graphics should not disappear if you export to RTFD. The styles are sent out of Storyist but chewed up in Pages. The trick is to go through Word or Open Office and save to. Storyist is not a typesetting program, though.Įxport from Storyist works best as RTF (for text). Courier, the standard font for publishing submissions, is monospaced and does not kern. Have not seen problems with kerning in Storyist. Any feedback is appreciated.Ĭouldn't you set up the pagination and headers as you want by putting sections in different manuscripts within the same project, then combining them on export? I am writing this without access to my computer, so I can't be certain right now, but I think it is possible. I'm hoping to be able to use a single program to write in and prepare the document for printing. Hmm, the more I play around with it, the more I get the feeling that the page layout features I want are not in Storyist. Type kerning looks awful in Storyist compared to Pages and Scrivener. Is this a limitation of Pages or am I missing a step in the export process? docx and then open it in Pages, the headers and footers are missing. In my first couple of tests when I export a document from Storyist to. Is it possible to have custom headers or footers for different sections or chapters? I'd like to be able to have the chapter name appear in either a header of footer. and the main body pages to be numbered 1, 2, 3. Is it possible to have different page numbering for sections or chapters? For example, I'd like the first several pages to include no page numbers, the introduction to be numbered using i, ii, ii, iv. Storyist looks promising but it seems to be missing a couple of features that I would like to have. Pages is ok but missing some project organization features. I'm tired of Scrivener's lack of an iPad app but it also offers more features and complexity than I need. I am currently using Scrivener and Pages for creating some poetry books.
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