Minor FocusWriter update
Posted on December 4, 2011, under FocusWriter
I’ve made a new release of FocusWriter, version 1.3.5.1, primarily to fix a data loss bug. The bug occurred when opening a file created by other RTF word processors that used multi-byte hex values, which FocusWriter did not handle properly. Also in this release is a Dutch translation, thanks to Robert Borst. Enjoy!
6 comments
Charles Mincey says:
December 12, 2011 at 3:55 pm
How can I unstall Focus Writer? It does not show up in the control panel under the list of programs.
Graeme says:
December 12, 2011 at 4:08 pm
To uninstall FocusWriter just delete its program directory, as it doesn’t store any files outside of there.
WojtekD says:
December 12, 2011 at 10:11 pm
Graeme, is there a chance you could fix the word count logic not to count any strings that contain only non-alphanumeric characters? At this point any hyphen or star * character is counted as a word. I really liked FocusWriter but ended up using something different for Nano this year just due to this nuissance with statistics. In a perfect world, FW would have a function to count the words in the exact same way the Nano counter does 🙂
Let me know if this is feasible!
Regards,
Wojtek
Graeme says:
December 16, 2011 at 4:28 pm
Actually, that’s how FocusWriter’s word count already works (except that it counts any word with a hyphen as a single word, since it is grammatically). I have been toying with replacing the word count algorithm with a simpler one that matches the UNIX ‘wc’ command. As far as I know, the official NaNoWriMo word count algorithm is a secret but it appears to be the basically the same as ‘wc’.
ecrireducafe says:
January 19, 2015 at 3:27 am
Graeme, ah. There’s a case to be made fo hyphenated words to be counted as how many parts make up the whole, especially in the case of extremely long hyphenated words, as with David Foster Wallace — I can’t find an example of the top of my head or elsewhere, but it is something people do, the excessively hyphenated. I’d like for you to consider adding some sort of option so that people can specify word separators.
Graeme says:
January 19, 2015 at 12:47 pm
I will consider it.