That’s something you have to ask and answer for yourself. But do I recommend you run out and track down how to be a beta purchaser? There’s more, but I’m not going to be too critical since this is still in beta testing and the devs do seem to be responsive and listening to their beta testers. So there is a lag there and that can prove to be problematical if you are running up against a deadline and something happens and the app chokes on sending you the link. But it has to email you a link for your pdf downloads. So you can’t have a section heading and then chapters using H2 to give you an interactive table of contents that shows the section heading and then, if you open it up, the chapters under it.Īnother thing that bugged me a bit is the difference in how it deal with ePub and pdf downloads. It recognize H1 headers but no others, at least not now. The third–drum roll please–if you have three paragraph breaks or more in a row, it will recognize a new chapter.īut, as noted above, this is part of the problem as well. The first is if you use H1 headers to indicate a new chapter. Atticus has three ways (that I know of so far) that it recognizes new chapters. There’s even a throwback to Smashwords, if you can believe it. That said, the devs have considered different ways people convert their work. My concern for the software’s growth is that it isn’t as intuitive as Vellum and Scrivener has such a rabid fanbase. The devs are consistently updating the beta and, as a gamer, let me tell you this isn’t nearly as glitchy as some AAA games I’ve played. It is coming, but not until after launch.
Nor is there function for volumes and parts of a book beyond chapters. Related to the above, some general word processing functions are not currently available.At least the devs are open about it and about what they are working on now and what is coming down the line. Because it is a beta version, you don’t get all the functionality.Basically, what you get is a locked-in price for the program which will be lower than the release price. That said, I did go ahead and pay for the program because I wanted to see what it was like and I wanted to give you guys my opinion.
Yes, you do get the full program once it’s released, but still. It’s what can best be called a pay-to-play beta.