This repository is meant to be a development guide, roadmap and meta-issue tracker for the novelist project.
Novelist is a cross-platform writing suite for authors of all kinds, allowing you to produce novels, movie scripts and even scientific articles.
Following is a quick and dirty spec for what novelist will be
- Language: Vala for GUI stuff, maybe C++ or Rust for logic
- GUI written in Gtk+ 3 (4 when it's released)
- Commandline tool for exporting and working with files
- A format that can easily be used with source control (git or similar)
- "Page"-style what-you-see-is-what-you-get (WYSIWYG) editor
- Distraction free mode
- Analysis tools
- Highlight certain word types
- Highlight word collisions (repetitions within range)
- Highlight only current sentence, line, paragraph, ...
- Allow authors to arrange manuscript as folders (chapters) and files (scenes)
- Provide templates for planning
- Characters
- Scenes
- Locations
- Embed pictures into planning area
- Virtual storyboard
- Export project as other editor formats (docx, odt, ...)
- Export project as ebook types (epub, mobi, ...)
The project is currently not yet in development. This is a (curated) list of open questions regarding the project.
- Choosing a storage format (#1)
