I'm a bugger for using dashes as parentheses - like so - myself ;) It's kind of permissible on the Net, though, as it's the online equivalent of "two spaces at the end of a sentence", i.e. it came about because of the display restrictions of the medium. Em-dashes are part of the extended A...

Perhaps I haven't understood fully, but why not just click the menubar lozenge in the upper right corner of the window? That's a standard feature of OSX apps. [EDIT TO ADD: Ah, I see - you're talking about the system-wide menubar. Sorry, I thought you meant the Scrivener toolbar. I don't really see ...

KB wrote:In general, I think this is all straightforward and I'm a little surprised that there is anything to debate...

You and me both, but maybe that's because we're native...

since what Mary said did not literally include any punctuation, right? The exclamation mark is just a shorthand way of conveying something about how Mary said what she said. Well, of course. But the grammatical question is, does the exclamation 'fit' with Mary's words, or those of the narrator? In ...

By the way, not all UK books use single quotes for dialogue. Checking a few books which are easily to hand, it seems to be split 75/25: ALTERED CARBON, NEUROMANCER, THE RECRUIT, SPARES, IRON COUNCIL, CONTRACT, SCEPTICISM INC and Hemingway's FIRST FORTY-NINE STORIES use single quotes, while FOUCAULT'...

Once again, Keith beats me to it (clearly I need to get up earlier on a Sunday). I don't think anyone with a decent knowledge of grammar would think "Wait!", Mary said. is in any way correct. And it's not an exception, either - it's all down to whether or not the punctuation already exists...

The "said Harry/Harry said" thing is just author preference and possibly house style, I think. I'm not aware of any grammatical rule on that usage, in either US or UK English.

Keith is exactly right. British English really isn't that confusing!

tannie wrote:* Safari: seems unable to do it

Safari can't do it natively, but the excellent and free Inquisitor plug-in will add the functionality, and a hell of lot more besides. I've been using it for about a year, and frankly I'm now lost without it.

Mange wrote:here's an alternative to the desk problem.

That actually looks pretty good. Now, if only they did one big enough to have all my note papers spread out, as well. Oh, and a cup of tea. Oh, and an ashtray. Oh, and...

Sophie, there is one thing you might not be aware of that I don't think has been mentioned yet. In the Compile Draft dialogue, in the first tab ("Content"), there's a box above the list of documents that says "Choose folder..." If you click on that, it presents you with a hierarc...

Ptz wrote:I suggest you try Sabon, Georgia, Palatino and Bookman Old.

I was going to suggest pretty much the same faces. Sabon, especially, seems to be getting a lot of use these days.

Have you looked into perhaps using Backpack or Basecamp ? A more centralised database of tools like this, complete with calendar, notes, file storage and so on might be better suited (and easier) than trying to figure out how to make many disparate apps talk to one another. I'm not sure about Backpa...

There are no "rules" to using Scrivener, and any document you create can always be moved elsewhere if need be. Just create a document anywhere and start writing/making notes. By the time you're ready to start worrying about where things should go, you'll have more experience using Scrivene...

Not strictly summer, and definitely not a blockbuster, but IN BRUGES was one of the best films I'd seen in years.