All righty then. I may have not followed the suggestions religiously, but I've solved the problems. This is coincidentally how many writing problems are solved—someone makes a suggestion that takes you out of your own thinking pattern and allows you to come up with an even better idea than the sugge...

This is a lot to think about.

Thanks for your diligence in trying to help. I'll report back, but these ideas are interesting, probably helpful.

And I must apologize to Tomkeen. I honestly did not set out to hijack your thread; I was actually trying to just bump it up.

Jack, As Devin says, you are complicating the process a bit by having a style for every single bit of text—the reason why body text isn't normally given a style is precisely to avoid problems with compilation and allow the different compilation body text formats to apply automatically. It can be do...

If I can suggest, it would be helpful if that were expanded to find 'no' formatting. In other words, to have the ability to search for moments where there is no style applied to parts of text. I realize that many do not apply styles to very many elements in text, and searching like this would not be...

What I do is just use the search feature of Scrivener. What I've found is that if you put the entire phrase in quotes, this works rather well. For instance, If I search for the word 'promise', even though that is not really that common of a word, I might get 40-50 returns in a manuscript of 80K word...

I use 18 pt font in the editor. I have this set as the default font size. Although I've already been admonished for using styles, I put a style on everything, because I want dialog to be all-lines indented and narration to be only first-line indented. IOW, not using a style at all makes everything t...

I consider the indent on the iBooks e-reader a little big. It's like an entire 4 characters, and I'd prefer if it were 2.5-3 characters. So in my custom eBook compile format I edited 'section text' in the section layout by dragging the marker for where the indent is from 0.29 to 0.22. One would thin...

Thanks.

Yet I must disagree that this is intuitive, in any sense.

Well, the whole idea behind Scrivener is that it is NOT wysiwyg, so criticizing Scrivener for this simply means that you are using the wrong tool. If wysiwyg is important for you, you should be using a wysiwyg desktop publishing software. Use Scrivener for what it is designed for, that is writing, ...

Scrivener recommends placing all images in the research folder and then invoking them with a code in the text in Scriv mode. It works, and it makes sense to a degree. For instance, I have a small graphic at the head of every chapter, and this allows me to have the image stored in the file one time, ...

And in particular, the leftmost mode button can toggle between Scrivenings mode or single document view mode. For a folder, the former will make the editor show the combined text of the documents contained in the folder, whereas single document view (for a folder) shows you the textual content of t...

… Which mode do you have selected? In this shot, I have outline mode selected for this group (the folder that is currently selected): … Scrivenings mode, corkboard mode, outline mode from left to right. And it is possible to have no mode selected, so that you only see the contents of the selected f...

This is a head scratcher for me. Sometimes, if I select a folder in the Binder, what is displayed in the Editor is just the text (if there is text) directly in the folder. Other times, what is displayed is that text plus all of the text in all the documents nested within that folder. I must be doing...

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Thanks. In Comp mode you are seeing text as if you were in Scrivenings mode, and it really would not make sense to show the outliner or cork board mode while in Comp, so it seems completely natural that it shows text. But my understanding of Scrivenings mode is that it refers to text mode in the Edi...