Please help, I am going crazy last 3 hours trying to figure out how to NOT have the body of my manuscript compile BOLD. No matter what I do, on whatever project format I have created, the body of the manuscript compiles bold. The heading, titles, everything else I can change to regular font, and they stay that way, but for some reason, no matter what I do, the body portion of the options revert back to bold in the preview pane even after saving. Its highly annoying.
I have gone into the styles section and made sure the body was not bold as well thinking that was it and still, it compiles bold. I duplicated a scrivener format and edited it, and STILL the body portion reverts back to bold no matter what I do, on no matter what font family I use. Am I missing something?
Please help. I donʻt like the way the Times New Roman especially looks after compilng. It does it in bold and it looks too heavy and bulky. Everything else, front matter, titles everything else compiles regular, but not the body.
Check your Layouts in Compile Format Designer. You may have clicked the bold icon there which would make all content bold. Also, you may have chosen a bold version of a font there.
I looked at this in my format for submitting to an agent (wanted double spaced) I first duplicated the problematic scene layout you are using in the compile format designer by clicking the + sign in the upper right. This has a blank name, labeled bold to add bold and saw the bold in the preview pane when assigned. Now duplicated this to see if could undo and did and compiled with no bold. This is what i did with pictures.
Now the text in this section layout is bold and opened compile format and clicked on this section layout and then inside the text window at the bottom and see bold highlighted. I unchecked this and disappeared. Also note i have the box in the lower left checked and clicked save. Now reassign section layouts and choose the unbolded one for your scene and after assigned look at the preview window.
I compiled this and the bold was gone. did you have override text and notes formatting checked or not. If not try checking the box and see if does the trick.
Hi, thanks for responding. It happens no matter what font I select, Manuscript Courier also does it. I need Manuscript (Times) because I will query it. No matter what it stays bold. I have done what you had suggested at least 20 times and it keeps reverting back. Again, the titles and headers and everything else changes, and is fine. To add, the font size, italics, justification, all other options save and recall fine, it’s just the damn font REGULAR that doesnʻt take. Even when I change it to Italics it saves. Its the font regular that does nothing. Is there a place where the body is set apart from this?
Every single other function works and saves. Font “Regular” doesnʻt save no matter what font I use as well. It compiles the body in bold and when I come back to took at the settings its set back to bold. Iʻve even installed other font – same results.
Oh god I think weʻre getting closer, that is exactly what is happening to me. My box is checked, I was afraid to toggle it. I will try that now. Sometimes this software makes me afraid to do anything for fear of screwing things up.
Gah, Iʻm going to have to spend the day trying to recreate what you did because when I try to duplicate that layout, it assigns it to “Scene” whateer the hell that means, and it still doesnʻt change to not bold. I guess I have to get better at using this software.
Why the hell is this simple function so complicated…it should be a non-issue.
agree hate it is so complicated. I just duplicated the scene section layout with the plus sign and clicked inside the format box of the new section layout to remove the bold, if that works and save and assign to your scene layout should work. I tried to show you the steps, but could do a zoom if you are still struggling and see if we can fiqure it out.
I know this is out-of-the-Scrivener-box thinking, but you could take what you have compiled, drop it into another word processing program, and format it there.
If you want your scene text to look exactly as it does in the Editor, then supress formatting in the Compile Format Designer by leaving Override Text and Notes Formatting unticked.
It’s the solution most should follow anyway, as it goes a long way to avoiding the mythos about Compiling being difficult. Use it for headings and the like, but for narrative uh-uh, overkill.
True except that I wish to not work with a 12 point font of TNR if I donʻt have to. It is probably why they designed it this way so that you can use a font that works with your vision after all, youʻll be staring at it for possibly years.
Ok tried again exactly as you stated, which I had done before as well, but no dice, it still stays bold when I save and then recheck it. Iʻll have to figure out a workaround.
You said you sent your agent the bold one by choice? Perhaps that is my solution then, haha. The font just looks so bulky and uneven is all.
I was able to format my epigraphs and tables for stanzas perfectly, this is the only remaining thing. Those I did the override text and notes as the workaround.
For some reason its that one font selection that doesnʻt work. Even the italics saves fine, and the italics bold, but the REGULAR, nope. And this is across all the fonts.
I feel like I may have set a global default or something somewhere.
The thing is: Scrivener’s Editor has a few dozen fonts you can set in File > Options > Editing > Formatting, no matter what template you use.
The Compile Formatting is for the stuck-in-the-paradigm-editors who want output the way they were taught according to a 1925 standard.
Something tells me that they didnʻt develop the software the way you are describing.
I like Sitka subheading bold, 14 point, as its easy on my eyes and my multidesktop screen. Are you saying that I should change it back to TNR 12 everytime I want to compile?
No, they’re saying that part of the point of the Compile command is to allow you to write in Sitka bold, but still produce TNR output for editors who want it.
It might be helpful for someone to look at your project directly to see what’s going on. You can open a support ticket here:
Yes, and that was my point. I edit in that font and when I compile in ANY font every other font selection saves EXCEPT “Regular”. Thanks, I will do that. I have it installed on another laptop and it does the same thing.
