Mac also has a built-in dictionary that you could potentially map a keybinding to. So if you select a word or phrase and {right|ctrl}-click, you'll see 'look up in dictionary' somewhere near the bottom. From there, you can then switch to the thesaurus for synonyms and antonyms. It may be possible (I...

Do you have embedded images in the documents that don't compile? What's the sort of content you have? Presumably it's the same sections that aren't compiling, so can you identify anything different about these sections?

Take a look in the header section of the page settings tab in compile.

That's a good point. I neglected to think about plural possessives and word-final apostrophes. Interesting to learn that project replace supports regex too. I'm not upgrading my machines to 10.9 until I finish the thesis, so can't make any use of it (it certainly would have come in handy a few weeks...

A couple of things to try are quick font override, make sure it's unchecked (or checked with a more appropriate font face), and also in the formatting setting, make sure that for ever document in your list that you have 'override text and notes formatting' unchecked. These text boxes allow you to ap...

The problem with project replacements is that it will also change things like 'I'm' to 'I"m'. You have to use regex for this, as you have to exclude these forms.

Surely if it's just a visual requirement, for the ease of separating chunks of documents, then wouldn't an underscore or two do the trick? Or a pipe? Or any other character?

Regex is basically a system of wildcards for text searching and matching patters. [a-z] will match any alpha character, ^ is a negator for the wildcard, and parentheses denote a text to be captured. So this regular expression says 'find any rightward single quote that is next to something other than...

But just on the off-chance that there are some instances of ’ that escape your memory right now that get accidentally changed to double quotes, maybe backup first. Or hope that they're marginal enough that you'll be able to change them back by global replace later.

Firstly, if Serenity Editor is the best grammar and spelling-checking software on the planet, how come it isn't customisable enough to support custom ignore field delimiters? Having said that, if you're running 10.9 (I think) then you can use regex in project replace. It's worth learning regular exp...

This will also depend on how formatting-heavy your document is. I put all my formatting in my document in scrivener because I have quite a bit, it being a thesis rather than a novel. You might want to experiment with options like 'preserve formatting' and override formatting in compile, which will a...

Are you opening it on the same machine as when you last closed it (and it was functioning)? I have heard of people's dropboxes not updating properly, despite telling them that it had updated fully. In all cases when they returned to their other machines, their work was saved properly. In which case ...

This is not a limitation of Scrivener, it just takes some getting used to. Maybe tell us a bit about what your doing and we'll try to put you in the right direction. By outline, I presume you mean an export of your project showing all titles in their respective hierarchy, without text but maybe with...

If I recall correctly, all writing function will be the same (Mac might even have some improvements in this respect), but Mac definitely has more compile functionality. So you could quite feasibly write on whichever computer you want and if you've set your compile setting using Mac-specific function...

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