I’ve got a project in a Scrivener UK stage play that I pasted from a RTFD document. It’s got hanging indents throughout the whole document and want to remove them.
I’ve worked my way through the formatting options but can’t see how to change the settings. Any help much appreciated.
If you are in Scriptwriting Mode, you can impose the paragraph styling for various parts of the script using the pop-up menu in the lower right of the editor pane. If you have not done any conversion with your pasted text, then it all will all show as General Text on that little menu.(1) For example, put your cursor in a dialog paragraph and choose “Character and Dialog” and this will reformat the line and remove any first line indent.
If you are not using Scriptwritinig Mode, you can remove first line indent with Format > Paragraph > Tabs and Indents or by using the Rule Bar – as you would with any general text.
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(1) Your pasted material is just text. However much it may be laid out like a script, it is not yet in Scrivener’s script format – which explicitly classifies each paragraph as a defined script element.
Thanks for your reply. Firstly I ought to say I’m totally hopeless at anything remotely technical.
My project is in scriptwriting mode but when I put my cursor over the character’s dialogue that I want to delete the hanging indent from and changed the element to Character & Dialogue it didn’t do anything except change the character’s name to a different format. It didn’t delete the hanging indent. I’ve got 286pp in which I want to delete these hanging indents. I’ve formatted the project the same way I’ve done in previous projects which worked fine.
Hello again - I’ve looked again and now see it’s not hanging indents but a paragraph symbol that’s causing extra line spacing. But I still don’t know how to remove/delete the paragraph setting.
If you have too many paragraphs, delete some.
You could do a search and replace. Search for (pilcrow) ¶ and replace with an empty space. But don’t do it globally or you will have a mess.
Thanks so much for your response. I searched Google and found the remedy via Gwen Hernandez. Find then replace but only in the text. That did the trick.
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