Found something in the Tutorial [BUGS FIXED]

[DukTape]

I think I killed my tutorial. I was just near the beginning, where it said to drag step 3 to the header view (and I don't know if that meant in the binder or up top, so I did it in the binder). Then I was reading it, and thought I'd put it back where it belonged, I mean with its level back at the same level as the other steps. Only somehow both steps 2 and 3 disappeared on me. I hit ctrl+z a few times, but it didn't bring it back. I closed the tutorial without asking it to save, but those steps are still nowhere to be seen.

Hi DukTape! I'm pretty sure that the parts that involve dragging into the header are not live yet. According to the tutorial instructions, if you think you've messed up your tutorial, go out of Scrivener and use Explorer to go to where you had scrivener create your tutorial file. Highlight and delete the tutorial folder. Then go back into Scrivener and restart the tutorial process to create new tutorial files. Then you can go right back to where you left off. Hope this helps!

Thanks, AprilD! It worked. This is pretty interesting stuff.

[Tatra]

Another random thing I've found in the tutorial is the fact that the footnotes and the annotations are not already there in Part 4: Text Tools. It just looks plainly like this:

Inline Annotation and Footnotes
Inline footnotes and annotations look like this:

This text has a footnote after it. This is a footnote. When the text is compiled, exported or printed, this footnote will be turned into a “real” footnote (or endnote).

And this is an annotation. Annotations can be completely removed from the text when you compile, print or export.

[AmberV]

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Found in the tutorial, 5e references dragging keywords from the keyword HUD, but when I open the HUD it has no keywords in it.

Thanks, this one has already been reported and we are aware of the problem.

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in 5b of the tutorial on the inspector it says that the options in General includes : include in compile, but it’s actually ‘include in draft’ on the general pane of the inspector.

(Great user name). Good catch. This tutorial was adapted from the Mac 2.0 version which has abstracted the naming conventions a bit. Before, if you renamed “Draft” to “Bubbles” the interface would change to “Compile Bubbles” and “Include in Bubbles”, which was nice… but kind of a support problem. You can no longer say “Just click ‘Include in Draft’”. So small things like this slipped through the editing net.

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Now, as I’ve said, I might just be misunderstanding the words, but when I think of ‘padlock’ I think of a lock with a loop and when I see the picture that is used on the icon, I think of a ‘key.’

Looks like that phrase should have been highlighted in orange. There will be a padlock icon on the far right side (and just the way you imagine it). At the moment, this feature doesn’t exist yet. As you note, the Key icon is for keywords—totally unrelated.

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Hi. When I took a snapshot as directed in section 5f I could then see the snapshot I had just taken, but not the one which was supposed to be there from when the tutorial was written. Unless I’m doing something wrong which is entirely possible!

You aren’t do anything wrong. It looks like what happened was, at some point this tutorial project was exported as RTF files and then re-imported. That’s my guess anyway. This would explain why the keywords are gone, and this snapshot is missing.

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It should tell us to go back to the folder because since there are no sub-documents in the outliner mode all we will see is a blank page.

Actually that was kind of the point of this exercise: to illuminate the fact that corkboards are not necessarily functions of containers, but anything in the binder at all can become a container (even images in the Research folder). The outliner/corkboard is blank on a normal file because it doesn’t have children yet, but it could have children.

Perhaps this steps should have the user create an index card, and see how it comes a child of Step 7? That might help.

Found a rather confused sentence in Step 8 “(whatever that meansNo need”. I think there’s a parentheses and a sentence transition missing there.
nohika

Oi, yeah. That got totally mangled!

Focused is spelled wrong.

Actually both forms are correct; but you are right the single consonant is preferred. English!

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It currently reads “…so that it can be compiled when compile. ” I would rephrase it to something like “…so that it can be compiled once you have finished.” Or something to that effect.

Good catch.

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I think I killed my tutorial. I was just near the beginning, where it said to drag step 3 to the header view (and I don’t know if that meant in the binder or up top, so I did it in the binder).

As AprilD points out, you can always regenerate a new tutorial project by deleting the old one. But you are right the drag-to-header function has not been coded yet—it should be highlighted in orange to indicate that.

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This did not work for me. I see the gray bar, but nothing happens when I click on it. There is no percentage pop up either.

This feature has not been implemented yet; it should have been coloured orange. The above line introducing text scaling was highlighted, but not this one.

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Another random thing I’ve found in the tutorial is the fact that the footnotes and the annotations are not already there in Part 4: Text Tools. It just looks plainly like this:

Hmm, more evidence that this tutorial version was exported and then re-imported.

Thanks everyone!

[nohika]

"Go to View > Corkboard > Show Pins. Each index card will now display a pin holding it in place that is the colour of the label associated with the document. Alternatively, you can select View > Show Label Color to mark the corner of an index card the with the colour of the label. You can also select Show Stamps via View > Corkboard, which places a diagonal stamp on the cards—this stamp shows the status associated with the document represented by the index card."

The commands are wrong. "Show Pins" is actually "Show Label Pins" and "Show Label Color" doesn't exist. "Show Stamps" is actually "Show Status Stamps".

=) Just helpin' out.

[AmberV]

Thanks! Just saw this from another post, too.

[nohika]

Okay, so I'm in Part 3 Step 13, and down at the bottom this "Currently, the beta imports text only and not the images yet." is in orange.

...does that mean it can't import anything at all, or...? I don't understand why it's orange.

Oh, and another thing.. "The Compile sheet will expand to show a whole raft of options." "Range" sounds better than raft, I think.

[DukTape]

Okay, so I'm in Part 3 Step 13, and down at the bottom this "Currently, the beta imports text only and not the images yet." is in orange.

...does that mean it can't import anything at all, or...? I don't understand why it's orange.

Oh, and another thing.. "The Compile sheet will expand to show a whole raft of options." "Range" sounds better than raft, I think.

Yeah, but "raft" is funner.

[LaughSing]

I'm in step 8, Splits, and it says, "Alternatively, click on the left button in the right of the header view above (the square with the horizontal line through its middle):".

No, your other left.

The left button in the right of my header view has a vertical line, and performs a vertical split.

[AmberV]

Argh! I've been inverting sides for days on end now!

Thanks.

[nohika]

I'm in step 8, Splits, and it says, "Alternatively, click on the left button in the right of the header view above (the square with the horizontal line through its middle):".

No, your other left.

The left button in the right of my header view has a vertical line, and performs a vertical split.

What does it say when you hover over it? Mine has them reversed - if I hover the mouse over it, it says it's a horizontal split.

[LAP]

Thanks everyone, I have augmented the Tutorial and incorporated all of the feedback on this post.

[LaughSing]

I'm in step 8, Splits, and it says, "Alternatively, click on the left button in the right of the header view above (the square with the horizontal line through its middle):".

No, your other left.

The left button in the right of my header view has a vertical line, and performs a vertical split.

What does it say when you hover over it? Mine has them reversed - if I hover the mouse over it, it says it's a horizontal split.

Haha! It *says* it's a horizontal split, but it looks like a vertical split and acts like a vertical split. <quack>

Of course, if these picky little things are the worst things wrong with the product, WOW.

[myralynn]

Hey - FYI on the tutorial Part 2, Step 8: Splits it says a couple times about the screen that is in focus is the one with a header that is "blue". I think that only applies if the pc has the standard colour scheme in operation. I have a different colour scheme (you can select this on the control panel of the computer) so all my windows have a green header and therefore my screen in focus turns green. I run Windows XP. Cheers.

[myralynn]

me again - another colour thing in the tutorial: Step 12 project search, the tutorial says the word binder will be highlighted in red, on my pc it's highlighted in yellow. not sure if that's the colour scheme or what. as before windows XP, pc is an HP Compaq top of the range dinosaur from about 5 years back

[saggers]

I tried to find whether this has already been discussed but I could not find anything. I am using beta 021. In the tutorial there is a passage that says:

"Alternatively, if a Corner Mark is selected in the Options the corner of each index card will be the color of the label associated with it. You can also select Show Stamps via View > cork board, which places a diagonal stamp on the cards—this stamp shows the status associated with the document represented by the index card"

Neither of these seems to happen. Using the options to choose pin instead of lable works but not the other way around.