I am wondering if Scrivener could give me an option to do so in future (may be in the "compile page" menu?).
As far as I know, MS Word can't do this? (I don't have the newest version, however.)
Ulysses can.
Hanami
Determining the lines of a page / characters per line
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Often it necessary to format a MS so that there is a specific number of lines per page and a specific number of characters per line.
I am wondering if Scrivener could give me an option to do so in future (may be in the "compile page" menu?).
As far as I know, MS Word can't do this? (I don't have the newest version, however.)
Ulysses can.
Hanami
I am wondering if Scrivener could give me an option to do so in future (may be in the "compile page" menu?).
As far as I know, MS Word can't do this? (I don't have the newest version, however.)
Ulysses can.
Hanami
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Hi,
The trouble is that it depends on the sort of font you use - you can only set a number of characters per line with monospace font. There will be no built-in way to do this with Scrivener. (What sort of manuscripts require this specifically? There are a lot of myths out there about MS formatting, so I'm wondering what you have in mind.) However, 2.0 will have a page view and you will be able to customise its size, so by using a monospace font and playing with the page size you could feasibly get something like this working.
All the best,
Keith
The trouble is that it depends on the sort of font you use - you can only set a number of characters per line with monospace font. There will be no built-in way to do this with Scrivener. (What sort of manuscripts require this specifically? There are a lot of myths out there about MS formatting, so I'm wondering what you have in mind.) However, 2.0 will have a page view and you will be able to customise its size, so by using a monospace font and playing with the page size you could feasibly get something like this working.
All the best,
Keith
Keith,
thank you for your quick reply.
I am sometimes working for radio stations. They ask to hand in the MS with 30 lines/page and 50char/line. Then they are able to figure out quickly, how long it takes to speak this text. This is a standard page that comes from the times of typewriters.
Some academic publishers also ask to hand over the MS with a certain number of lines per page (they don't give the margins! )
Therefore at least it would be very useful, if Scrivener would let me define the lines per page instead of playing around with the margins and print until I got the right amount.
Char/lines: If you set the char/line to e.g. 50, a line with Courier font would be longer, a line with Times font would be shorter. Anyhow: The amount of chars/line would be the same and would fulfil the request of the publisher.
That was, what I was thinking of.
Regards from Japan
Hanami
thank you for your quick reply.
I am sometimes working for radio stations. They ask to hand in the MS with 30 lines/page and 50char/line. Then they are able to figure out quickly, how long it takes to speak this text. This is a standard page that comes from the times of typewriters.
Some academic publishers also ask to hand over the MS with a certain number of lines per page (they don't give the margins! )
Therefore at least it would be very useful, if Scrivener would let me define the lines per page instead of playing around with the margins and print until I got the right amount.
Char/lines: If you set the char/line to e.g. 50, a line with Courier font would be longer, a line with Times font would be shorter. Anyhow: The amount of chars/line would be the same and would fulfil the request of the publisher.
That was, what I was thinking of.
Regards from Japan
Hanami
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