yWriter5 on OS X tutorial

[Greg Kennedy]

I put this together:
http://greg-kennedy.com/ywriter/

Maybe someone would like to wiki-fy it? I believe there are steps
missing (fonts etc) but I'm just trying to get it running for my wife,
and I thought the info might be useful for others trying to figure it
out.

[Simon Haynes]

Looks great. Would it be okay if I copied it to the Wiki? People are much more likely to find it there, and google will be paying for the bandwidth with all those images ...

Cheers
Simon
--
Software designer & programmer
+ author of the Hal Spacejock series

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[Simon Haynes]

I've set up a blank page which, for now, just links to your tutorial:

http://sites.google.com/site/ywritersj/installing-on-mac-os-x

Eventually it would be good to move it across.

[Andreas]

I tried to install yWriter on my Mac, but the link to the zipped
version that I need is dead. Could you have a look at it? I tried the
beta version zip file but running it doesn't work on my mac.

André

[Simon Haynes]

The link on this page definitely works:

http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter5_Linux.html

I've also changed the yWriter download page so it links to the Zip file instead of the Linux page:

http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter5_Download.html

However, the Zip file is more of an upgrade than an installation. For example, you don't get the desktop and start menu shortcuts with the zip, although that's not relevant with Mac/Linux.

Cheers
Simon
--
Software designer & programmer
+ author of the Hal Spacejock series

Andreas wrote:

> I tried to install yWriter on my Mac, but the link to the zipped
version that I need is dead. Could you have a look at it? I tried the
beta version zip file but running it doesn't work on my mac.

Andr?

On Jul 16, 9:39?am, "Simon Haynes" <spacej...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've set up a blank page which, for now, just links to your tutorial:
>
> http://sites.google.com/site/ywritersj/installing-on-mac-os-x
>
> Eventually it would be good to move it across.
>
> Cheers
> Simon
> --
> Software designer & programmer
> + author of the Hal Spacejock series
>
> Greg Kennedy wrote:
> > I put this together:
> >http://greg-kennedy.com/ywriter/
>

> > Maybe someone would like to wiki-fy it? ?I believe there are steps

[Dennis M. Thielen]

Thanks Simon, I noticed you changed the yWriter5 to link to the zip file. Last week it didn't, and today it did. Eggggsalent...

[Greg Kennedy]

Yes, please copy it over - it would no doubt get a lot more visibility
from the main wiki, plus I don't intend to maintain it at all : )

This tutorial is only a partial success though. After playing around
a bit, I wasn't able to open the "new scene" menu, which meant I could
never actually write anything. Maybe some other OSX users would have
better success.

-Greg

[Simon Haynes]

Greg Kennedy wrote:

> Yes, please copy it over - it would no doubt get a lot more visibility
from the main wiki, plus I don't intend to maintain it at all : )

Thanks, will do.

>This tutorial is only a partial success though. After playing around
a bit, I wasn't able to open the "new scene" menu, which meant I could
never actually write anything. Maybe some other OSX users would have
better success.

I'd check the log file - it's likely to be a missing font issue.

[Simon Haynes]

Okay, it's up and I've also copied the images to Google's site.

http://sites.google.com/site/ywritersj/installing-on-mac-os-x

I've also added you as an editor, just in case you want to tweak the page in future.

Cheers
Simon
--
Software designer & programmer
+ author of the Hal Spacejock series

Greg Kennedy wrote:

> Yes, please copy it over - it would no doubt get a lot more visibility
from the main wiki, plus I don't intend to maintain it at all : )

This tutorial is only a partial success though. After playing around

a bit, I wasn't able to open the "new scene" menu, which meant I could
never actually write anything. Maybe some other OSX users would have
better success.

-Greg

On Jul 16, 5:22?pm, "Dennis M. Thielen" <thielens...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Simon, I noticed you changed the yWriter5 to link to the zip
> file. Last week it didn't, and today it did. Eggggsalent...
>
> On Fri, 2010-07-16 at 20:00 +0800, Simon Haynes wrote:
> > The link on this page definitely works:
>

> >http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter5 Linux.html

>
> > I've also changed the yWriter download page so it links to the Zip file instead of the Linux page:
>

> >http://www.spacejock.com/yWriter5 Download.html

>
> > However, the Zip file is more of an upgrade than an installation. For example, you don't get the desktop and start menu shortcuts with the zip, although that's not relevant with Mac/Linux.
>

> > Cheers
> > Simon
> > --
> > Software designer & programmer
> > + author of the Hal Spacejock series
>

> > Andreas wrote:
>
> > > I tried to install yWriter on my Mac, but the link to the zipped
> > version that I need is dead. Could you have a look at it? I tried the
> > beta version zip file but running it doesn't work on my mac.
>
> > Andr?
>
> > On Jul 16, 9:39?am, "Simon Haynes" <spacej...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I've set up a blank page which, for now, just links to your tutorial:
>
> > >http://sites.google.com/site/ywritersj/installing-on-mac-os-x
>
> > > Eventually it would be good to move it across.
>

> > > Cheers
> > > Simon
> > > --
> > > Software designer & programmer
> > > + author of the Hal Spacejock series
>