I’ve seen this topic touched on back in 2016-2017, but, after a search of the forums, I’m not sure I’ve seen it addressed by the dev team so I’ll re-introduce it.
Am I wrong to think that the auto-calculation of session targets could fairly easily be reprogrammed to show negative session targets (during the painful cutting phase of manuscript development)?
For example, in the attached illustration it would be great if the session target showed -400 words. Is this possible / desirable?
I think there is. You can go to Project > project targets > options > session target > allow negatives. Not sure how to input a negative target though…
Also, in project > writing history it does tell you negative numbers, which are the words/characters you have erased, so it should be possible.
Well, I was thinking it would automatically calculate a negative session target if there is an overflow (as in my example above). I’ve tried playing with “allow negatives” but it doesn’t seem to translate into auto-calculated negative session targets to reduce total word count to the targeted figure.
Set the Draft Target to the lower value, and strive to remove the overfill color. Set the overfill color to bright red in File > Options > Appearance > Target Progress Bars.
Thanks. Although that cosmetic workaround does help a bit, I couldn’t work out how to get Scrivener to calculate session targets, etc. Having negative word count targets is still a handy feature that I think Scrivener could easily implement.
