Formatting gets lost

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When exporting to Word or PDF:

Loses formatting
Loses line spacing
Moves some lines
Inserts #

As in below:

Hope

For hope is a breathing thing
Living against odds or logic
Burning bright when all common sense
Means to drown it
The beating of a well-intentioned heart
Foolish, hurling itself against the sky
Sun and Moon
Look down in pity
Sofia Barrow

In the darkness, Frankie Carter drove her spade into the weed-choked, spongy side yard of the house at 61 East Avenue. She dumped the spade full of dirt onto the mounting pile. The scent of spring, loamy soil, worms, sprouting grass, and rain hung in the cool air. Soon, the lilacs would bloom and fill the air with a fragrance that only ever reminded Frankie of her childhood. Tonight, hope and possibility swung through the night sky like a pair of birds.
Olivia Maxwell, Frankie’s business partner, stood by, bossing her. Peering into the hole,

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It is hard to know how your included text example exemplifies the phenomena you list, since we cannot by it determine what you expected it to look like or what it looks like in the editing pane in Scriv.

I guess a central question would be: what Compile Format are you using when you invoke Compile? The default one pretty much compiles things “as-is”, so if you are expecting (without further ado) for things to look as they do in the Editor pane, you should start with that and see if it delivers something like what you are looking for.

Most Compile formats operate on a different principle than that – are not designed to send things on as-is, but are precisely intended to commandeer the format of things. So the look of things in the Editor pane when writing and the look of things when compiled to various file formats can have quite distinct looks.

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