My only other caveat regarding WriteRoom concerns its price.
#Writeroom features free
Grosjean’s currently testing a fix a free test version, in the form of a separate application called QuickCursor, is available from Hog Bay Software’s Web site. While that plug-in seems to work in Tiger, it doesn’t really work in Leopard.
#Writeroom features install
You can install a plug-in that lets you invoke WriteRoom from other programs-you can use WriteRoom to write messages in Mail, for example, or fill in Web forms in Safari. The only significant glitch I ran into came when I tried to integrate WriteRoom with other apps. Bugs that users mention in the forums seem to draw a quick response-and a prompt fix-from Grosjean himself. Any questions not answered there can likely be solved with a visit to the program’s online discussion forums. While there are no built-in help files, there are links to useful online help pages. The program never crashed during my tests, and I never encountered any bugs within the program itself. If there’s an aspect of WriteRoom that can’t be customized via the program’s Preferences window, you’ll be hard pressed to find it.Appropriately enough for such an elegantly simple program, WriteRoom is fast and responsive. If you can’t bear to be completely separated from your beloved desktop, WriteRoom even lets you adjust the opacity of the background to let your windows peek through. (When you move your otherwise hidden mouse pointer to the top of the screen, a standard Mac menu bar appears, from which you can access preferences and adjust other settings.) WriteRoom lets you change the font, magnify the text, expand or contract its width, and much more. Nearly every aspect of the program, from the cursor and the text to the background color and the type of scrolling, is fully customizable via WriteRoom’s thorough but user-friendly Preferences window.
Move your mouse to the bottom of the screen, and document information (word or character count, title, and so on) briefly pops up. You can use your mouse wheel, the arrow keys, or a slider bar at the right of the screen to go back and forth through your text as needed. (Anyone old enough to remember word processing on an Apple IIc or IIe may feel a fond glow of nostalgia.) As your text piles up, WriteRoom uses typewriter-style scrolling to push the text upward, leaving the line you’re writing nicely centered at the middle of the screen your eyes never have to stray too far from one spot. Start typing, and you’ll see the screen begin to fill with bright green text.
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