Probably Scrivener 1.01. Probably me being thick. Probably obvious. But:
Anyone know how to bookmark a particular point in a document? I’m doing an adaptation & have the original text, all 125,000 words of it, in one pane & my current scene in another.
In an ideal world, I’d like each scene to link to the relevant point in the book master file. Can’t see how to do it. Any help appreciated.
Is there any reason you can’t split up the original? (There’s no way to bookmark to particular sections at the moment, I’m afraid.)
Splitting the document is not really a viable answer; while a given scene may focus on one part of the book, I go back and forth a lot in the book text (“Didn’t they put a curse on the Floating Trousers of Iqz’a’abqal in Chapter 11?”) while coming back each time to the bit I’m working on.
It’s one of the few workflows where splitting the text is a hindrance rather than a help.
Ah well. Can’t have everything.
Hmm, I could imagine having something in the header view icon’s menu that did something like this, but the trouble is how to assign bookmarks within a single text document (partly given that 2.0 already uses the word “Bookmarks” for bookmarked documents that can be accessed easily from the top of all the menus that list documents).
I’ve been thinking about this recently, given that my list of changes for 2.0 - which is a document within my “development” Scrivener project - is now so long, that it would be nice to navigate to different sections without breaking up the text of that one particular document.
It might be nicer if Scrivener could automatically build this menu from the given text, but how? It could just assume that any paragraph that is all bold text or all italic text or all underlined text is a heading, for instance.
Or: When you went to open the menu from the header bar, it could scan through the text to look for the most common font size, and looking for whitespace. If there is a gap between paragraphs, it would check the length of the next paragraph. If it is less than 100 characters, it would check to see if it started with bold, italic or underlined text, or if the font was bigger than average. If all of these cases are met, it could be treated as a header in that menu.
I’m just thinking out loud, really… But what if you have no headings in the text? Any thoughts?
All the best,
Keith
I know that I am painting a bull’s eye on my chest with this.
Use HTML anchor tagging.
duck and cover
I’m not sure what you mean? That’s not supported by the text system… Am I missing something?
The text system seems to provide HTML support. see attached for a very dirty example. Done in text edit.
Again HTML is bad, but you might be able to extend to RTF. Just showing the how idea.
For the record, even I am not this paranoid about upload attack vectors.
test.zip (845 Bytes)
I’m not quite sure what the attached shows, sorry. 
The text system can export to HTML, yes, but Michael is asking for bookmarks within a single text document within Scrivener - he’s not asking about generating such a file. And you can’t assign anchors in the text system, as far as I know.
All the best,
Keith
I guess I am making an assumption that RTF will allow you to use a similar tag for referencing “things”. I expect that I am wrong though.
By the way, I create “bookmarks” by inserting little codified annotations as search targets. I like this method because it exports and works pretty much anywhere you can search for a text string. An example target might be:
id:09308942And then later on another annotation could say:
trousers cursed id:09308942Double-click to select the number, Cmd-E, Cmd-G. Bookmarks.
Well, kinda. What I do most often, actually, is then link the referrer to the host document where the target is. So I select the number, Cmd-E it, then click on the link and press Cmd-G. Cmd-[ takes me back to where I was. But this tip will be of less use in your situation since they are all predictably located in a single document.
I also use little quick ones for stuff that is just temporary. Insert [b]ddd[/b] into an annotation where I was currently reading/editing, following a link, then pop back to [b]ddd[/b] to return to where I was.
Can you tell I used to write a lot in Vim?
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By the way, I create “bookmarks” by inserting little codified annotations as search targets. I like this method because it exports and works pretty much anywhere you can search for a text string. An example target might be:
id:09308942And then later on another annotation could say:
trousers cursed id:09308942Double-click to select the number, Cmd-E, Cmd-G. Bookmarks.
Okay: Who among us isn’t wondering how the trousers got cursed, and what, exactly, happens to the occupant of cursed trousers.
Oh come on. Where I live that happens every day.