(You can also split the screen horizontally.) Now, instead of switching back and forth from Preview to Pages, I just keep my eyes on the article I’m transcribing and touch type. Since I’m transcribing a newspaper article published in single columns, this view is excellent. So I split the screen vertically and put the article I’m transcribing on the left and the text document of the transcription on the right. In Scrivener, you can store images in a research folder and you can split your screen and see two things at once. This morning, it dawned on me that I could use Scrivener for transcribing genealogy documents to make the process a whole lot easier. I’m pretty good at it (it’s how I transcribed my 2nd great grandfather’s 138-document Civil War pension file), but it’s a little clunky and time consuming.
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(He doesn’t have a computer.) I started yesterday by opening the article in Preview (my Mac’s pdf reader) and toggling back and forth between it and Pages (my Mac’s work processing program).
So I decided to transcribe the article so that my dad could read it. They cheerfully complied, but the resolution of the image they sent is not the greatest. My aunt had given me a clipping of the second part of the feature when I saw her a couple of weeks ago and I emailed the newspaper to see if they would send me the first part. (My grandfather, a life-long newspaperman, was 50 when he and my grandmother decided to take on this adventure!) They sold the paper in 1975 and on the 25th anniversary of the founding, the newspaper published a long, two-part feature on them. They were the founders of a small-town weekly newspaper, the Franklin County Graphic in Connell, Washington, whose first issue was published in 1954. So for the last couple of days I’ve been taking tutorials in preparation for using it to write my novel in November.Īnother thing I’ve been working on the last couple of days is transcribing a long, delightful newspaper feature that was written about my paternal grandparents in 1979. I’ve heard about Scrivener over the years but was never really tempted to try it until this year when I took a look at this introductory video and realized how helpful it would be for me in writing my novel.
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Last week, I decided to download a free trial of Scrivener, software designed for people who are writing long documents. I blogged about it yesterday on my organizing blog.) (I do it every five years, and this is my fourth novel. Call me crazy, but that’s my idea of a fun challenge. I am participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) next month, in which I (along with about a half million other people) will be attempting to write a 50,000-word novel in 30 days.
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