Working with an editor

Your editor works in Word; you keep writing in Septangular. When their copy comes back, take in their changes one by one.

Sending a copy

Choose File → Send to an Editor…, say who it’s for, and choose where to save it. Septangular saves the book, takes a snapshot named after your editor (“Sent to Cassandra Austen”), and makes a Word document of the whole book in standard manuscript format, every scene whatever its status, with your comments as Word comments. Send it however you like. Your editor can track changes and comment in Word, Google Docs or Pages.

Taking their changes in

When it comes back, choose File → Review an Editor’s Changes… and pick the file. Septangular knows which scene is which and what you sent, so it shows only what your editor changed, scene by scene: the words cut and the words added, and their new comments. Accept puts a change into the scene; Reject leaves it out; Accept All takes every change in a scene at once.

Keep writing while the copy is away. Because the snapshot records exactly what was sent, the editor’s changes are placed in the scene as it is now. If you’ve rewritten a paragraph they changed, both versions are shown side by side, and you choose which to keep. Accepted changes are ordinary edits, waiting for your next save, so ⌘Z or Versions can always take them back.