Good Day Fellow Scriviners,
As my writing progresses, I am looking for a way to be writing, and then for just a phrase or couple of words or sentence. Make it bold and and different color or format. But then quickly switch back to default font. I know command B gets me bold and easy to switch back but what if I want to have it also include font size or color. I.e. like a custom shortcut? or some other feature or concept i dont know about. Where its very simple and i can just resume writing.
It seems you are on Mac, but what version of MacOS, what version of Scrivener?
For what you want I’d make a character style and create a shortcut to that style. Pretty easy to do on Mac; let us know if you need help with doing it.
Mark
Is this for text that you want readers to see, or just notes to yourself? Styles are the way to go for something that should be reader-visible, but annotations are the “official” tool for notes to yourself. Cmd-Shift-A toggles annotation formatting on or off, and there’s a switch to exclude annotations from your output document.
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I can get back to on the version of MAC and Scrivner, but I think they’re both as up-to-date as you can get.
I did consider using the styles because I can do the shortcut for header one, and I get the nice bigger font with a bold setting and as soon as I press the carriage return it automatically goes to the default text. That’s the exact behavior I’m looking for.
I just want to use something that’s a different color and bold I guess in print it would be some kind of situation that I just wanna highlight for the reader so in essence bold would work, but I did want the font to be a little bit bigger too the color isn’t as important because in the real world The only distinctions of text are probably like some kind of emphasis like italics or bold.
I tried missing with the redefined style and I just would’ve used the shortcut for that new redefined style, but it just didn’t work for me. I don’t think I could change the text size or anything else. It was pretty limited.
I’ll keep looking at it
Thank you for the annotation comment in shortcut. I definitely find places where I could use that I thought that that’s what comments were for you know I’m just stepping into my workflow with Scrivner so I’ve seen that I can come back to something and not even know that I have comments because I don’t have that window pulled up. Maybe annotations is more up my alley.
But my original intention was for the reader to see it so for instance, a self-help book where there are certain phrases that are just worth kind of highlighting and making the text pop
So I wanted to do that, but then just be able to go on with typing and not spend so much time clicking buttons it looks like styles is the way to go but redefining his styles didn’t seem to work however I expected perhaps I have to create a custom style. I have not done that yet YouTube may have a resource
Thank you for response
Some people prefer comments, some prefer annotations, some use both. Comments should leave a highlight in the text even if the Inspector isn’t open, though.
Personally, I typically use annotations for things like “look up atomic weight of neptunium” and comments for things like “this character just appeared from nowhere. probably I need to revise backstory into earlier chapters.” YMMV.
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