Protected chapters or scenes

[lordofscripts]

I was a Scrivener user but I no longer use Windows. One day I found about Novel Writer, and I like it.

I plan to use it for novel & memoirs writing.But for the 2nd...

It would be nice to be able to protect parts (text) selectively so that only people with the right code can unscramble and read it in the AP together with the all-eyes parts .

Basically text-based encryption, just basic transliteration but can be implemented any way.

The best would be delegation of protection so that novel Writer only knows the path of the program and the parameters set by the user. The application would simply pass plain text and pipe it to the user app and collect its output (stdout):

.cat scene_14.txt | third-party app -secret "password '

So, novel writer doesn't need to know anything other than:

• the encoding app path
• app parameters for encoding and deciding

The external app collects via stdin, encodes or decodes the data and sends the transformed version via stdout. That external app can be anything that accepts and produces text.

As for the end product, the manuscript, the writer can choose whether the encoded parts are rendered as-is or decided.

[vkbo]

My first impression is that this is out of scope for novelWriter. It isn't specifically about writing fiction, because in that context it doesn't make sense to password protect individual documents in the project.

I can see a point in protecting entire projects, which I guess could be a feature. However, if you want to protect your files it would probably be better to use encrypted storage instead.

[lordofscripts]

I did not mean to encrypt files, there are plenty of tools for that.I described a different use case: protecting PART of the work chapter/scene temporarily.

[vkbo]

Yes, I understood that. And as I said, I don't think it fits within the scope of what novelWriter is designed to do. I can see a point in protecting an entire project though.