yw-timeline

The Timeline Project application can be used to visualize the course of the narrative time in a yWriter project.

Features

• Generate a yWriter project from an outline created with Timeline.
• Generate a Timeline project from a yWriter project.
• Synchronize yWriter scenes with corresponding Timeline events in both directions.
• When synchronizing a yWriter project with a timeline, optionally change unspecific scene “Day/Hour/Minute” to specific “date/time” and vice versa.
• Launch via drag/drop or Windows context menu.
• The application is ready for internationalization with GNU gettext. A German localization is provided.

Requirements

• Python version 3.6+.
• yWriter 7. Recent versions 5 or 6 might also work if they save in .yw7 file format.
• Timeline 2.4+. Versions below 2.4 do not support labels, which are necessary for synchronization with yWriter.

Download and install

Download the latest release (version 3.0.10)

• Extract the “yw-timeline_v3.0.10” folder from the downloaded zipfile “yw-timeline_v3.0.10.zip”.
• Move into this new folder and launch setup.pyw. This installs the script for the local user.
• Create a shortcut on the desktop when asked.
• Open “README.md” for further instructions.

Note for Linux users

Please make sure that your Python3 installation has the tkinter module. On Ubuntu, for example, it is not available out of the box and must be installed via a separate package.

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Changelog

Usage and conventions

See the instructions for use

See also

There is a plugin for the novelyst application.

Credits

• The icons are made using the free Pusab font by Ryoichi Tsunekawa, Flat-it.
• Frederik Lundh published the xml pretty print algorithm.

License

yw-timeline is distributed under the MIT License.