I drafted ninety thousand words in markdown and never once thought about layout. When I finally needed a print PDF, the chapter templates were already there waiting.
Mira Halberstam
Author of three novels · Edinburgh, UK
Testimonials
Authors, editors, and small presses describe how Scribe fits into the long, careful work of finishing a book.
I drafted ninety thousand words in markdown and never once thought about layout. When I finally needed a print PDF, the chapter templates were already there waiting.
Footnotes, bibliography, multiple source documents — Scribe handles the messy reference work without dragging me into Word styles. The reference formatter just stays consistent.
For a poetry collection, the typography choices are the book. Being able to set print PDFs with proper CMYK and reuse them across titles changed how we plan production.
I work in two languages at once. The CJK vertical layout is the only one I have used that does not feel like a workaround — and the markdown stays clean.
Most of my writing happens offline, on trains and in cafes. Scribe being a desktop app with everything local is the reason I can actually finish drafts.
Style addons let me keep one manuscript and switch between a paperback look and a screenplay-style export without rebuilding everything from scratch.