I always have this issue too. The formatting is preserved when I use the compile function, but that’s not always how I want to use Scrivener. In my current project, I’m sharing scenes with my beta readers as I finish editing them, by copying/pasting into a google doc. I don’t want to have to re-com...

In all fairness that's our mea culpa . With Scrivener 3 on macOS we said Windows users could expect Win3 to be out in 2018. Then our Windows developer was sure it would be ready for mid-2019. And here we are, still working towards the release. In retrospect, what we should have said was that we wer...

KB wrote:

I would like to stress that my feeling that Scrivener runs fine on Silicon is purely a hunch. [/quote]

Editorially speaking, if you lower-case that S in silicon you're technically not even prevaricating.

So the moral of Mr. Pigfender's story is, You kids shut up and eat your vegetables.

Vic was truly the heart of this community for most of its existence, a relentless encourager, a gentle puncturer of egos, a defuser of unnecessary conflict. Whenever the entitled and the rude pee in our conversation pool, I always imagine a sharp scratch from Fluff and a rollicking piratical from ol...

I'm running Catalina on a 2015-vintage MacBook Pro with no--or at least minimal--issues. iCloud sync isn't as consistently reliable across three devices as it was with Mojave; the 10.15.6 update needed a refresh of iCloud passwords. But otherwise, nothing more annoying than usual in the post-Jobs era.

Ahab's post reminded me of this from Nabokov: How do you write? What are your methods? I find now that index cards are really the best kind of paper that I can use for the purpose. I don’t write consecutively from the beginning to the next chapter and so on to the end. I just fill in the gaps of th...

For me, the main strength of Scrivener is its ease in writing out of sequence. In the formative stage of a novel, you don't really even know what the sequence is. There's a chronology, of course, but that isn't always the right sequence of presentation. Scenes, and research, have a way of triggering...

In the US, jellies are strained of seeds and pulp; jams are not. My grandmother made both raspberry jelly and raspberry jam, sometimes from the same batch of raspberries. The cooked pulp meant to become jelly--Grandpa's store teeth didn't suffer seeds--got ladled into a jelly bag and strained into j...

Yesterday I was watching the sobering news become ever more sobering and saying to my wife that Wow, This Changes Everything, and she said How, for you, exactly? You've been sitting in the same chair pecking at a keyboard since the Disco Crisis. And you primarily socialize with trees.

"But what if," Lucy said with averted eyes, "the crumpets are more metaphorical in nature?"

If I learned anything in 30 years as an editor, it was No two writers are the same. That being said, I wouldn't edit a first draft on paper. First drafts are by definition a mess; I'd leverage Scrivener's reorganizational strengths, its ability to cut and paste (without using, as we did in the Olden...

But is it the sort of dragon one might not mind visiting now and then, in a casual sort of way, or the sort that always arrives at tea-time and makes critical comments regarding your taste in Welsh Cakes and upholstery?

A third of the way through a fourth (or maybe fifth) rereading of Trollope's Barsetshire Chronicles.

Pretty much more of the same. Replaced an Underwood typewriter and a bottle of Snopake with a Commodore 64, then a Kaypro running CP/M, then a dual-floppy PC with a squinty green-screen monitor running MS-DOS 2.1 and MS Word 1.01. Then a PC with a massive 10mb hard drive followed by more PCs, and Wi...