This is quite an unusual one, I suspect. I am a freelance editor but also a novelist. Sundays I work on my books only! This one novel, I need to alternate between novel prose and script stage play mode because the novel deals with a bunch of actors reading a script. However, last time I did this on my brand new macbook pro a month ago, my computer suddenly started literally screaming and froze and then crashed and I had to spend two days in the mac store trying to recover lost files.
I imagine this is not a common thing to do? And I am not going to risk trying it again.
So what I need to do, is to indent the blah blah blah when it goes over onto a second line. so that it reads like below when I compile it into wordā¦any answers? Iām not very good at using styles but am open to trying if that is what I am going to have to use.
I have spent 14 years working as a pro in scrivener and never used them!
Yes, styles. I donāt think there is any other way around it.
(I am not saying that thatās what freaked your computer. But if you want to avoid switching modes, styles is the way to get the formatting you want in the editor. With quick recall etc.)
You could also have a blank in another document (shown in the second editor, copyholder or bookmarks panel), and copy paste the lines as you need them from it. ā That could get you closer to what you want, if you have different formatting blocks within a single paragraph. (Which can also be achieved using a combination of paragraph formatting styles and character attributes styles, but which involves a lot more clicking.) ā As a matter of fact, if you want the result to make it through compile, you MUST use styles ā paragraph formatting and character attributes. Whether you use a blank +copy/paste or set the styles as you go.
The only thing one needs to learn is how to set them right. Which takes a whole 10 minutes max.
After that, you need to be aware of what can no longer be done at compile and how it rather behaves and is to be set, but that can wait.
Meaning that 1: you now know it can be done.
2: you therefore donāt have to learn the whole to start testing and see if using styles fits your flow or not. (Knowing it aināt a dead end.)
i think i have another question then regarding thisā¦can i highlight text and convert it all to scriptmode? or change a whole folder to script mode? the reason i ask is because i have spent hours writing the script and it wont format how i want it to, with indents on each speakerā¦and i donāt want to do the whole thing by hand now that i know i can have two modes in one projectā¦
itās only one scene but would be so time consuming to type it all again in script mode
