Thu Jan 23, 2020 7:49 pm Post
Sat Jan 25, 2020 6:06 pm Post
Sat Jan 25, 2020 7:14 pm Post
biblioman wrote:adrm,
just in case—please, check whether the option „Include style information in exported file“ is checked on in your Compile settings—it should be. (See image attached).
srivener include style information option.png
Sat Jan 25, 2020 10:07 pm Post
adrm wrote:biblioman wrote:adrm, just in case—please, check whether the option „Include style information in exported file“ is checked on in your Compile settings—it should be. (See image attached).
Hi.
Yes, I made sure it's checked.
If it's working for you guys, the problem is probably at my end.
Do you have a link to something that explains how to set it up styles export properly?
Sat Jan 25, 2020 11:23 pm Post
biblioman wrote:
In the meantime, may I ask about how you made sure your styles were not exported? Maybe, it should be checked twice. While in Word, do you put cursor in a paragraph marked as, say, 'my very special style' in Scrivener project and see its style as Normal?
Sun Jan 26, 2020 11:56 am Post
adrm wrote:biblioman wrote:
In the meantime, may I ask about how you made sure your styles were not exported? Maybe, it should be checked twice. While in Word, do you put cursor in a paragraph marked as, say, 'my very special style' in Scrivener project and see its style as Normal?
I need to backtrack a bit. I can now get most of the styles I expect exported to the Word document, and also have them applied to the expected paragraphs. E.g. in my test the chapter headings are assigned the style "MyHeading" while the scene paragraphs are assigned the style "MyBody" when I examine them in Word. All formatting appears to be as defined by what's set up in Scrivener's Compile-> Section Layouts. So far, so good.
Then it gets a bit weird. Although the first (no first line indent) and second (first line indented) paragraph both show up as MyBody, if you select them and press <ctrl>-SPACE to clear character formatting, the font family and size change to Word's default Calibri 10pt, but the paragraph layouts now seem to be controlled by what's defined in Scrivener's Compile->Styles. In any case, I have not used Calibri in the Scrivener setup and I'd expect the style to retain New Times Roman, or whatever I've set compile to use.
Depending on how I set up Scrivener's styles, I sometimes get different results inside Word between using <ctrl>-SPACE on a paragraph and re-applying the MyBody style. In some cases I get exactly the same results for these two actions, in others the results are different, e.g. the justification differs.
There are inconsistencies I just don't understand here. I realize this sounds muddled, but it's as close to what I'm experiencing as I can get.
Sun Jan 26, 2020 1:21 pm Post
biblioman wrote:I suspect this matter is all about 'Formatting' parameter in Scrivener's styles. Did you set 'Save all formatting' for a paragraph style, including font ant size? If not, you have got in Word exactly what you are expected to. )scrivener style options.png
Sun Jan 26, 2020 1:32 pm Post
Sun Jan 26, 2020 2:10 pm Post
adrm wrote:Errr ... another question.
The styles I used "MyBody" and "MyHeading" are defined within the compile format I used to 'export' to docx.
As such, they don't show up in the Scrivener editor list of available styles.
My idea was that I could use the editor without applying styles, i.e. let scene text stay as "No Style" and let the compiler do its magic and apply styles for use in the exported format.
Did I misunderstand you, or do I need to apply styles everywhere in the Scrivener editor to make this work?
If so, doesn't it clash with what seems to the Scrivener approach to style use?
Sun Jan 26, 2020 2:26 pm Post
biblioman wrote: I am sure there is detail instruction on the matter in the User's Guide.
Sun Jan 26, 2020 2:47 pm Post
Sun Jan 26, 2020 9:54 pm Post
adrm wrote:biblioman wrote: I am sure there is detail instruction on the matter in the User's Guide.
I'll do some further testing, as this is important to my workflow. I've tried looking for answers in the manual. Now, it's likely I've gotten dumber in my advancing years, but I haven't found a clear answer on how to do this yet. Thanks again for taking the time to reply, though.
Sun Jan 26, 2020 10:19 pm Post
biblioman wrote:
For a user used to Word, or Writer, or InDesign, the most confusing thing about creating a style in Scrivener is that you are not supposed to start from some special menu. You are to fully format some paragraph, and then create new style based on this paragraph's formatting through menu: 'Format > Style > New Style from Selection...'. It is there where you get the options concerning font and size I mentioned earlier.
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