Import: yWriter, Manuskript, Scrivener projects

[mkoskim]

At some point we could consider importing projects from other writer software: yWriter, Manuskript and Scrivener.

NOTE: All these three formats are possible migration formats, that is, converting .mawe file to a yWriter/Manuskript/Scrivener project. So, it is possible that at some point we are talking about project conversion, not import or export projects.

AFAIK, all these three tools work with directory tree. Well, I am not sure about Scrivener. They keep the fragments (scenes) in separate files, and have files for metadata (scene lists and so on).

So, for all these formats, importing from ZIP is also an option.

In the past I have studied yWriter document structure. It has some metadata files, and scenes are stored as separate RTF files. It should be relatively easy to be imported to MaweJS, in fact, I was considering it already when writing Moe (around 2010).

Sadly, I don't have yWriter myself.

AFAIK, Manuskript is somewhat similar. Manuskript has an option to use ZIP file, which is basically great.

I am not entirely sure about Scrivener's project format, as it seems to be hard to find description of that.