You have the advantage that RTF is, under the hood, a plaintext format. That is, the actual bytes on disk are plaintext; if you open an rtf file up in any plaintext editor (such as VS Code or TextMate) you can see this. So in my experience, git's diff algorithm is able to work fine, and you don't ha...

It seems someone on the forums created such a script. I believe I linked to one earlier. The main problem I have with it (aside from the fact that I haven't gotten it to work right on Mavericks) is that it quits Dropbox instead of simply pausing it. My Dropbox is otherwise large enough that it's an...

Note that I do not use File->Save (or the keyboard shortcut) at all, which could very well be the way some people trigger conflicts. Unfortunately, the ⌘-S shortcut is just too heavily ingrained in me after years of Ctrl-S on Windows machines that had a tendency to crash unexpectedly. I don't even ...

For those who want something more robust than a Keyboard Maestro script, it is possible to make OS X take care of this for you automatically by using a launch agent . Thanks for this, though as stopping/starting Dropbox is a relatively heavy operation, I don't suppose there's any way of modifying t...

That's pretty much what I expected, unfortunately. Thank you for the quick response, even if it was a pretty stupid question most likely.

What is the current recommendation regarding using Scrivener with Dropbox on OS X? Currently, I keep my .scriv file (err, bundle? I forget the term. Whatever a glorified folder is) in a folder on Dropbox. I pause Dropbox's syncing (Menu Bar -> Gear -> Pause Syncing) before opening Scrivener, and unp...

When I first wrote the novel, it was in blog posts, where each post was a scene, basically. So each scene ended up with a title. However, several of my beta readers pointed out that something like a third of the scene titles are like "Conversation between friends" and "Conversation in...

Aha, excellent. Yes, I can definitely see sometimes wanting to get the higher level, and sometimes wanting the nitty-gritty. That option gives me exactly what I want! The main thing with giving a title to every scene is either they are so generic as to be useless ("Alice talks with Bob", w...

Hm. Suppose I have chapters made up of multiple scenes. When I look at each chapter in corkboard mode, it shows me a card for each scene. However, when I go up to Draft, I only get one card for each chapter. Is there a way to instead show all the composite cards of a chapter, or do I have to provide...

Awesome! That answers my question. Thanks for the quick response.

I'm looking at using Scrivener as my tool for doing a full re-write/revision/edit of my novel, and a lot of the features look awesome for that. However, there is one thing--what I'd plan to do is use the corkboard to go through and outline all the major events of the story (since I have it written, ...

AmberV wrote:Sounds like misanthropomorphising to me.

I don't have any other response to that.

Wouldn't that be interpretable via context (not a greek scholar by any stretch)? Yes, I understood what he meant. I was simply being pedantic (if there's one place I figure I can be pedantic about language, it's among a bunch of writers), though trying to be less-than-serious about it. But the defi...

garpu wrote:I'm a misanthrope when it comes to computers.

You're a person who hates people when it comes to computers?

(Remember, "misanthrope" comes from the Greek words "miso" and "anthropos", which are "hate" and "man (person)", respectively...)

For linguistic purposes, I would consider it either grammar or (more specifically) typesetting. Remember, the origin of the double-space was the fact that before typewriters, typesetting would have a longer space between sentences than between words. However, from a spellcheck algorithm point of vie...