Speech numbering in scriptwriting mode
Posted: Wed Jul 17, 2019 10:44 pm
I'm hoping to enter a radio play competition where the presentation guidelines are quite explicit: "For ease of reference, the pages of a script should be numbered consecu- tively throughout. Please note that each speech should be numbered and each new page should begin with speech number 1."
See https://static.rasset.ie/documents/dram ... -final.pdf for a visual example.
I have found an option under Format->Script Writing->Script Settings which allows Sequential Numbering on the left or the right for Dialogue or Character&Dialogue, but I'm having two problems: When I print to PDF, the line numbers only show up when there is a transition to Character/Dialogue from something else, for example:
FX: CAR DRIVING ON NARROW, POTHOLED AND TWISTY COUNTRY ROAD (General Text)
2 MIKE: Rotten old road, this. (Dialogue has a line number)
MAL: Yes(Dialogue, No line number)
EVELYN: What?(again, no line number)
General text (General text)
3 EVELYN:(Absently) Aye. (And the line number appears again, apparently because it follows general text)
Am I missing something fundamental, or have I found a bug?
Second thing is that the line numbers do not reset at the end of a printed page per the guidelines; is there a setting somewhere that might change that behaviour.
I guess I can get around this by exporting to Word then manually entering the line numbers, but that's going be a real pain. Is it possible to achieve this in Scrivener? If not, any recommendations on an app that would do it?
(Scrivener 3.1.3 on Mac)
See https://static.rasset.ie/documents/dram ... -final.pdf for a visual example.
I have found an option under Format->Script Writing->Script Settings which allows Sequential Numbering on the left or the right for Dialogue or Character&Dialogue, but I'm having two problems: When I print to PDF, the line numbers only show up when there is a transition to Character/Dialogue from something else, for example:
FX: CAR DRIVING ON NARROW, POTHOLED AND TWISTY COUNTRY ROAD (General Text)
2 MIKE: Rotten old road, this. (Dialogue has a line number)
MAL: Yes(Dialogue, No line number)
EVELYN: What?(again, no line number)
General text (General text)
3 EVELYN:(Absently) Aye. (And the line number appears again, apparently because it follows general text)
Am I missing something fundamental, or have I found a bug?
Second thing is that the line numbers do not reset at the end of a printed page per the guidelines; is there a setting somewhere that might change that behaviour.
I guess I can get around this by exporting to Word then manually entering the line numbers, but that's going be a real pain. Is it possible to achieve this in Scrivener? If not, any recommendations on an app that would do it?
(Scrivener 3.1.3 on Mac)
