iA Writer 5.2.8 – Professional writing suite

iA Writer (was iA Writer Pro) is a professional writing suite that gives you full control over your notes, drafts and edits.

• Workflow: Note – Write – Edit – Read. Each stage has a task-specific typeface and color.
• Syntax Control scans the syntax of English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish text and highlights your adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs, prepositions or conjunctions.
• Precision Writing Tools:
  • Auto Markdown formats text on-screen — your hands stay on the keyboard
  • Syntax Control introduces syntactic markup for natural language text. It covers English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Patent pending.
  • Convert Markdown to Microsoft Word 2007 .docx, and back again

Features

• Workflow states
• Custom typefaces, carefully set for optimal readability
• In-app preview
• Reading time, plus sentence, word, and character count
• Real-time iCloud sync
• Ready for Retina displays
• Full-screen

Compatibility: OS X 10.11 or later 64 bit

Web Site: https://ia.net/writer/

Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ia-writer/id775737590?mt=12

What’s New in iA Writer 5.2.8

This update fixes a few small bugs and improves compatibility upcoming system updates. It includes all the great features in iA Writer 5.2:

# A Typographic Christmas

• New typeface in three flavors
• Mono: Single character width, the classic
• Duo: Two widths, freeing M and W
• Quattro: Four widths, for a cleaner text image
• Over 1,000 optical variations seamlessly adapt to provide the best writing experience in any environment
• 14 text sizes in Editor and Preview
• Many Chinese, Japanese, and Korean typography improvements, including emphasis dots
• Bold, italic, and strikethrough commands are much more reliable and work inside words
• High quality math equation typesetting in Preview using KaTeX

# Library Locations

• Now support Desktop & Documents in iCloud
• Can be added from anywhere in iCloud Drive

# Fully-Featured Export to Microsoft Word

• Rebuilt from the ground up
• Compatible with Microsoft Word 2007 or newer, Apple Pages, and Google Docs
• Supports local images, footnotes, citations, page breaks, tables, math, headings, unordered lists, ordered lists, task lists, definition lists, blockquotes, bold, italic, CJK emphasis, strikethrough, superscript, subscript, links, horizontal rules, code

# Other Improvements

• Added sharing to Ghost
• Added visible filename when switching between tabs with hidden title bar
• Copy URL command to open files from menu in Library
• CommandClick links in Editor
• Use to exclude words from searches: microsoft word
• Inline code command
• Typing suggestions can be enabled in Touch Bar
• Korean and Russian localizations
• Added help articles
• Better hashtag detection

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