Been dabbling off and on for years. I want to start a new project on a technical (scientific) article which would be compiled to Latex. I find the available template, relying on the memoir class, too bloated. Is there a way to simply bypass all the defaults and have compilation done directly into a \documentclass{article}. I understand how to add pre-ambles from there.
This is an easy fix, that you will find instructions for in the help section that comes at the top of the binder for the LaTeX template. Expand the template guide, and navigate to the About This Template: Compiling subsection, and look for the heading, “To create your own document class variation”.[1]
As I note in item 6, I did try and keep any example code I configured in that Format as vanilla as possible, so that one could just go into Text Layout and declare KOMA, or vanilla Article or whatever they need without too much hassle. However, I’ll admit I’ve been using the memoir document class for so many years, I might have accidentally used a macro or two from it that isn’t stock. 
If you run into errors after adjusting the example to use article instead of memoir, let me know. The guide should help you find where syntax is coming from, in the compile Format’s settings, but if there is a problem, I’d like to improve the template so that it is more flexible, and uses more generic commands.
Note that if you have been using this template for a while, it may be from an older version of Scrivener and the guide will all be in one large file. You could create a new throw-away project from the updated project template and drag it over to update your documentation, as I recall improving a few other things about it as well. ↩︎
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