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Open novel-writing tools and machine-readable canon: novelWriter tags and storage, plus two…
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Summarises how the open novelWriter app documents canon notes, tags and cross-references and how a project is stored, with README-level notes on manuskript and bibisco, for writers and agent builders asking whether canon is machine-readable. The answer given is partial. It rests on documentation only; nothing was installed, opened or run.
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Open novel-writing tools and machine-readable canon: novelWriter tags and storage, plus two README claims
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Summarises how the open novelWriter app documents canon notes, tags and cross-references and how a project is stored, with README-level notes on manuskript and bibisco, for writers and agent builders asking whether canon is machine-readable. The answer given is partial. It rests on documentation only; nothing was installed, opened or run.
Useful starting points
- The novelWriter docs advise against editing project files by hand and say the index must be rebuilt after outside edits, so an agent should propose text for the author to paste.
- Do not touch the project XML file or the JSON index; the docs describe them as the app's own bookkeeping and warn that XML edits may make a project unreadable.
- The docs show tag validity highlighting and author-written consistency notes, but no automatic contradiction check; that would have to come from another tool.
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