I've used Pages for iPad and it'a good Word Processor. There are some issues with what will cleanly move between Pages for OS X and Pages for iOS, but nothing major.
What you did to me was unbelievable, Connor. But then I got stuck in a hell dimension by my girlfriend one time for a hundred years, so three months under the ocean actually gave me perspective. Kind of a M.C. Escher perspective, but I did get time to think.
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NoiseDesign - Jul 11, 2012 7:45:17 am PDT #20468 of 25501
Our wings are not tired
le nubian - Jul 11, 2012 7:45:55 am PDT #20469 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Pages is great, but I am not sure I would call it a fully featured word processor (like Word is).
I actually tend to do most of my writing (when using the ipad) on a text program and then I bring it to the computer for formatting.
WindSparrow - Jul 12, 2012 3:29:53 am PDT #20470 of 25501
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
What is the difference between a text program and a word processor?
le nubian - Jul 12, 2012 3:58:03 am PDT #20471 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Well, let me tell you how I use the terms:
when I write (and need to write anything of length (say 500-1000 words or more), I typically will use text programs to write. On a mac, my favorite is Scrivener, but on an ipad, I use Byword, Phraseology, or Plaintext.
I don't really need to format my writing (and I find it to be a distraction to format much as I am writing beyond paragraph breaks and the like. So it is helpful to me to just write 70-80% of what I need to do and then bring it into to Word to format later.
The apps above gave very basic formatting (underline, bold, font choices, etc.) but no "keep with next" and stuff like that.
tommyrot - Jul 12, 2012 4:50:24 am PDT #20472 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I think of a text editor as a program that edits plain text only. So no formatting at all. But I'm coming from a programming point of view, where code is always in plain text.
le nubian - Jul 12, 2012 4:55:38 am PDT #20473 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
the apps above save in plain text, but use multi-markdown.
except scrivener!
tommyrot - Jul 12, 2012 5:08:29 am PDT #20474 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'd never heard of multi-markdown. Is that what the kids are into these days?
I feel old.
le nubian - Jul 12, 2012 6:01:51 am PDT #20475 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
tommy,
I am not sure how old you are, but I bet I'm older than you. If you are younger than ita, then I win!
Multimarkdown is just a language (mostly for writers) that can speed up html language. If you aren't doing a lot of fancy html (or in my case, academic writing that doesn't involve a lot of complicated stuff), MM is wonderful.
It's like the quick edit here.
tommyrot - Jul 12, 2012 6:08:52 am PDT #20476 of 25501
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I'm 47, which makes me older than ita !, at least.
WindSparrow - Jul 12, 2012 7:01:39 am PDT #20477 of 25501
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
Thanks everybody, and especially le_nubian, for the explanations. On my PowerBook I had mostly been using Text Edit which seems to be a bit of a hybrid. Most of my writing is fan fiction, so the formatting is pretty basic. Bold and italics are helpful but don't always carry through to the sites I post to anyway. I do write the occasional business letter, but that is pretty much it. So maybe all I really need is a text editor. I'm going to look at the ones you mentioned, le_n.
Thanks again!