export headings as headings

Scrivener Wish List
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Dear enlightened programmers of an amazing program,

It would make my life easier, if the headings produced by compile would also be marked as headings in the resulting .rtf oder .doc file. - Currently, it seems the only option is to do this by hand after compile, e.g., via search an replace.

Would that be feasible? Could you implement it? … Please …

Best,

Oliver

PS: Sorry if that came up before, I couldn’t find it with search.

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When you say ‘headings’ are you referring to the bit of text along the top of the page (usually has author name / book name / pg. #), or RTF stylesheets? The former already exists (check the Page Settings compile option pane), and the latter is one of those really more difficult than it should be things that is missing only because of that. If it were easy to do it would already be in the software as it would be a natural thing to include.

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Hi,

thanks for the answert. I am not sure we understood each other.

What I mean are the headings for Sections, Chapters etc.
Scrivener produces nicely headings like

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Methodology

etc.

However, when I use word to further work with a file those show still up with style of ‘standard’ instead of ‘heading 1’/‘heading 2’ making reformatting and automatic generation of tables of contents impossible.

Is it this what you say is really difficult to program? Even a very simple and old program like latex2rtf is able to do this. (If my memory is right.)

If it is so difficult to do in .rtf, couldn’t you at least do it when exporting to html?

tags are easy, aren’t they?

Thanks,

Oliver

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Yes, that is RTF stylesheets. Like I say it’s on the long term list of things to look in to. Better HTML classification of titles is also on the list and that should be coming sooner than RTF stylesheets. Meanwhile, you could try MultiMarkdown (it’s in the beta). That supports Flat ODT output with stylesheets. Barring that, what people do now is use Word’s format find and style classification system to quickly take the formatting that Scrivener produces and turn it into a styled document for the sake of ToC and formatting flexibility.