Scrivener is not preserving first line indentation for me. I wonder if I’m doing something wrong or is this a bug already logged? Can someone confirm, please? I’m using the latest beta.
Thanks.
Jeco
I believe it’s already been logged – one “quick fix” I like to do to restore formatting is to select all of my text (with the cursor in the text editing pane, press CTRL + A to select everything in it), then adjust the upside-down triangle above the ruler to indent everything.
Unless you mean something else, sorry if I misunderstood. 
Here’s a pic of what I mean:
Unfortunately, it looks like you may have to do this each time you load Scrivener (for now).
Because first line indents are not (yet) preserved upon importing an .rtf file, I tried Digitalis’s method of selecting text with Ctrl-A and manually setting the indent on the ruler bar. I found that Ctrl-A only selects the text within one file at a time, even if you’ve opened up multiple files in a scrivenings window. Is that a bug?
Anyways, having set 14 different files (within the same project) to indent the first line of each paragraph, I entered full screen. The indents disappeared. Then Scrivener crashed.
I tried resetting the indents by opening files one at a time. When I returned to the first file, the indents were there, but they’d disappeared from the second and third files… They just don’t seem to stick.
Running Windows Vista on a Lenovo Thinkpad.
Thanks for taking the time to reply to my post, Digitalus. Yes, that’s exactly what I meant. I have also used your method but got a bit frustrated having to reset the indents every time I opened Scrivener. I opted instead to insert an extra space between paragraphs. At least those are preserved. With already bad eyes, I find difficult to write without more space between lines and without the first line indentation. Nevertheless, I keep pressing. I do really like this program and appreciate the hard work of the developers. They are a very nice, professional and kind bunch. Very rare qualities to find these days, I may add.
Cheers.
Jeco
I’m wondering the same thing. I did see a logged bug regarding the ruler and the indent arrows. Is this part of the rich text bugs that Lee has mentioned?
I’m having the same problem. I was initially just hitting the tab key and putting in a hard indent. Then I noticed the ruler and gray arrows. So, I set the one arrow for paragraph indent, but it doesn’t stay. I was moving back and forth between three documents in the draft section. I was also using the idea that Digitalus mentioned, highlighting all the text in that document, and then setting the arrow for paragraph indent. It would stay for a while, but as I moved back and forth between the documents, the paragraph indent would go away. I would fix it in my third document, go back to the second to see if it was still okay, and it would be changed. When I closed my project and then opened it again, all the paragraph indents were gone.
I’m running on Windows Vista.
I’m going to continue to write in Scrivener, but I am copying my paragraphs into Word and formatting them there as a backup.
I have the same problem. It’s properly formatted in documents I’ve never written in, but it disappears the moment I close the program.
Running Windows Vista 64 bit w4GB of RAM.
A quick point about scriveners intended use age that KB (the originator of scriv) has made a number of times over in the older Mac side of the house
That said, this does look like a bug. Just keep in mind that some functions of a word processor, like styles, are not part of the app right now.
Definitely bug material - I have logged it now. Thanks to all for the feedback regarding this.
Lee
This has happened to me too. I have created two documents so far (actual story text) both looked great indented but after I closed programme and went back in later the indents have gone.
I couldn’t find a way to reformat the doc to put them back).
As a quick fix, I’ve been using three space characters. Those get saved, and look less silly than the gigantic hard tab. It helps that I started noticing the issue with about 12 paragraphs written and therefore it was easy to retcon the spaces into the previous text.
Glad to see this (and, in perusing the forums, all the other bugs I’ve found so far) is being worked on.
I have both my gray arrows on the ruler line together–no indent, but every return now is suddenly indenting. It wasn’t that way before today. I opened the program and started a new untitled text page and it indents. The rule line hasn’t changed, though. It still shows no indent.
I would like to add that I really hope page formatting capabilities are forthcoming. For submissions, I need to be able to double space or single space, depending on the requirements of the various sites.
Thank you,
Lyn
I have Windows 7, on a HP Pavilion. i5 core.