Minor FocusWriter update

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!

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4 Responses to “Minor FocusWriter update”

  1. Charles Mincey says :

    How can I unstall Focus Writer? It does not show up in the control panel under the list of programs.

  2. Graeme says :

    To uninstall FocusWriter just delete its program directory, as it doesn’t store any files outside of there.

  3. WojtekD says :

    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

  4. Graeme says :

    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’.

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