Scrivener for Windows

Refinements and Changes

• New options allow for greater control over how Scrivener links open, including the ability to target copyholders and to set the default behaviour for newly created links and for document and project bookmarks.
  
• Bookmarks in the inspector can be opened using Enter, the same as double-clicking.
  
• You can now set list-type custom metadata values for multiple items selected in the binder, corkboard, or outliner using the context menu, just like status and labels.
  
• The menu commands in Edit ▸ Transformations ▸ to convert straight quotes to smart quotes and the reverse now apply to all documents loaded in a Scrivenings session when no text is selected.
  
• Pandoc Markdown compile formats no longer use closing hashes on heading lines, to better facilitate adding custom attributes (such as {#custom-id} .class-name}) without having to adjust settings.
  
• When unable to save an automatic backup to the custom location specified in Options, Scrivener now displays a warning indicating that the backup has instead been saved to the default folder (%LOCALAPPDATA%\LiteratureAndLatte\Scrivener\Backups).
  
• It is now possible to create a new document by dragging and dropping a text selection into the binder not just from text documents in the editor but from imported webpages, other areas of the project window such as notes and snapshots, and even from other apps.
  
• It is now possible to copy and paste multiple discrete text selections from within a document.
  
• The Draft Target now uses the compile group name when the Project Targets options are set to Count current compile group only.
  
• Multiple rows can now be selected and copied from the results in the name generator.

Bug Fixes

Upgrading

• Fixed a bug whereby external project and document references might not upgrade properly when upgrading a version 1 project to version 3.

  Note: To restore missing bookmarks from a project that has already been upgraded, hold Ctrl and select File ▸ Import ▸ Missing Bookmarks from v1 Project, then choose the original version 1 project backup as the source.
  

• Fixed a bug whereby linked comments and footnotes from older projects (last saved in a version of Scrivener earlier than 1.8.0) could be lost when upgrading to the 3.0 format.

Compile

• Fixed a hang that could occur when compiling to MultiMarkdown with the format set to override text and notes formatting and to convert paragraph spacing to plain text.
  
• Fixed a bug whereby the “Excluded Documents” and “All” filters in compile were ignored, so only documents marked for inclusion compiled regardless of the setting.
  
• Fixed a bug whereby the <$rst_keyword> placeholder failed to restart numbering in ebook formats when it was placed in a separate document from the keyword token (such as might happen when restarting chapter numbering following a part heading section).
  
• Fixed a bug in ebook compile formats that, when the option to remove the first-line indent from the first regular paragraph in each chapter was enabled, wrote invalid CSS into the stylesheet.
  
• Fixed a compile bug that added CSS classes to individual list elements in ebook formats, causing broken lists with the default settings and preventing custom list styling.
  
• Fixed a bug in HTML and ebook compile formats whereby paragraph elements and any style prefixes or suffixes were incorrectly applied to text marked with a style set to Treat as raw markup.
  
• Fixed a bug whereby paragraph spacing added via Section Layouts to plain-text compile formats was not recognised until using the dropdown tool in the section layout editor’s format bar.
  
• Fixed the <$pageGroupTitle> and <$pageGroupParentTitle> placeholders (and the older <$sectionTitle> and <$sectionParentTitle> placeholders) to respect capitalisation, so that entering the placeholder in all caps as, e.g., <$⁠PAGEGROUPTITLE>, will now output the replacement text in all caps. (Also fixed the <$sectionParentTitle> placeholder not being replaced.)
  
• Fixed the <$drafttitle> placeholder in the compiled header of the poetry template failing to resolve. <$drafttitle> is now properly replaced with the name of the project’s Draft folder (identical to <$draftname>).
  
• Fixed how a compile format’s Blank line separator value is saved to ensure cross-platform compatibility.
  
• Fixed the behaviour of the Current Selection compile group to always use the binder selection if a corkboard or outliner selection does not have focus.

Snapshots

• Fixed a bug whereby snapshots with identical timestamps could be lost when merging items. Such snapshots are now also merged.
  
• Fixed a bug whereby merging documents with a parent container could cause snapshots other than the parent document’s to be lost if the parent did not have both text in the editor and a snapshot.
  
• Fixed a bug whereby the Take Snapshots of Selected Documents command failed if the selected items were not consecutive.
  
• Fixed a bug whereby deleting a snapshot prevented new snapshots from being displayed in the inspector until the document was reloaded.

Project Search

• Fixed a bug whereby RegEx replacements made via Project Replace or Replace All from the document Find only replaced every other character per line.
  
• Fixed a bug whereby the Search Results collection failed to open when a search was run from the Project Keywords window while collections were visible in the binder.
  
• Fixed a bug whereby searching for Documents with No Keywords from the Project Keywords dialogue returned inverted results.
  
• Fixed a bug whereby opening the Project Search would immediately switch the binder to displaying the Search Results collection with the most recently run search if collection tabs were not already visible.

Project Targets & Word Count

• Fixed a bug whereby the session target failed to automatically recalculate from the deadline after the previous day’s target was not met.
  
• Fixed a bug that could prevent the session target from resetting if the computer had been asleep for over 24 hours with Scrivener left open.
  
• Fixed a bug whereby the Project Targets window would not remember its position when closed and reopened or when entering or exiting composition mode.
  
• Fixed the word-count calculation to count digits separated by a slash or comma as a single word.

Spell Check

• Fixed a crash that could occur after running the spell check in a document without errors if another project was open with multiple documents loaded in Scrivenings mode.
  
• Worked around a Hunspell limitation to properly display characters outside the Latin-1 set when offering spelling suggestions from the personal word list.

UI

• Fixed a bug whereby the editor named in the Navigate ▸ Binder Affects ▸ Non-Group Items Open in Other menu setting incorrectly changed based on which editor had focus.
  
• Corrected the Navigate ▸ Open ▸ Open in External Editor menu command to ▸ Open ▸ in External Editor and removed Navigate ▸ Open ▸ Original URL in browser (the original URL can be opened by clicking the link in the editor footer or using the command in the binder context menu).
  
• Fixed several locations where placeholder titles for untitled documents were not appearing as expected.
  
• Removed the outdated Copy as BBCode command, which had only limited functionality.
  
• Removed the menu option to insert MathType equations, as MathType OLE integration on Windows has been unsupported. Existing equations can still be edited as before.

Translations

• Fixed a number of translations that used incorrectly formatted pointers, resulting in placeholders like “%1” appearing in place of the project name or other custom text and preventing compiling to DOC, DOCX, and ODT file formats.
  
• Corrected broken translations in file extensions that could prevent saving exported or compiled files if the extension was not manually entered. (As a result, some menu text in Save and Open dialogues may not be translated in 3.1.2.)
  
• Removed the UI translations for the Look Up and Search options in the Edit ▸ Writing Tools ▸ submenu, as many of these mislabelled the site links.
  
• Updated a number of translations in the Simplified Chinese preview.

Miscellaneous

• Adjusted the binder behaviour to reduce the lag that occurred when dragging and dropping large items. The delay was caused by the undocumented ability to export binder items by dragging outside of the project; this has been removed, and items can be exported as usual via the File ▸ Export ▸ options.
  
• Fixed a bug whereby the Edit ▸ Sort functions could be applied in table cells, potentially damaging the table. These commands are now properly disabled within tables.
  
• Fixed multiple instances where an editor’s group view mode was not respected, typically switching to the corkboard, when loading a container through various means (such as when Find by Formatting found a match within a container’s text or when using Navigate ▸ Go To ▸ Previous/Next Document).
  
• Fixed a bug whereby Navigate ▸ Open ▸ in External Editor worked the same as Open ▸ Original URL in Browser for webpages, rather than loading the archived copy of the page contained within the project.
  
• Fixed a bug that could, when importing a style with Next Style assigned, set a character style as the Next Style if its name matched that of the paragraph style originally assigned.
  
• Fixed a bug preventing opening links from the bookmark preview in the composition mode inspector.
  
• Updated links in the Comic Script template.