Hello everyone,
I hope my title is clear enough: How can I write, not in composition mode, without my text being rigidly contained by the page mode and see my text follow the width of my screen?
I used to be able to do that in scrivener 2, I even think it was the default mode and it is not anymore in Scrivener 3.
Thanks for your help on that matter and sorry if this issue had already been addressed, I could not find it.
Best regards,
In Preferences -> Appearance, choose Main Editor in the left panel and untick ‘Use fixed width editor’
Just as in Version 2, there are two modes for the editor (three if you count Page View). These are ‘fill up as much of the window as you can’ (I don’t think it’s got a name) and Fixed Width editor mode — in the latter the text never gets wider than the fixed amount so the margins shrink / expand as the window does.
The difference is that the default has changed — in V2 you had to go looking for Fixed Width mode, while in Version 3 it’s the default.
To get back to the ‘old’ behaviour, then go to Preferences > Appearance > Main Editor > Options and untick ‘Fixed width editor’.
Hope that helps.
Preferences > Appearance > Main Editor - turn off fixed width.
The new defaults in Scrivener 3 use a fixed width because a fixed with with not too many characters across is generally much better for reading work back, and allows words to be fixed in place more. You can turn off the preference you really want text to stretch all the way across, though.
Thank you so very much to all of you! You’ve made more than my day!!!
Best,
The controls for setting Preferences > Appearance > Main Editor > Fixed Width are visible and appear to be operable.
However, as always with Scrivener, making the change doesn’t affect the current document.
Maybe this is because OSX presumes that you don’t need a ‘make it so’ confirmation button, so you make the change, hope with all your might, and close the dialog box.
So I have made this change with a document open…
Still, nothing in the display of the file I have open in Scrivener has changed, I still see a document open with a ruler indicating the page is 8.25" wide, the margins are nearly and inch, the font is apparently barely big enough to read.
So this is a matter of making the application program state explicit.
What other steps are necessary to actually bring scrivener into the state that it displays the current document stretched in size, page width, apparent character size and all the rest of the necessary features so that I can expand the application window to full size and all panels except the Editor Panel stay the same size as they were, but the Editor Panel expands horizontally and vertically so that the application window reaches its fully extended size, and the text in the editor reformats so that the text reflows into wider paragraphs, the ruler divisions adjust, and whatever is necessary so that the content is laid out to fully fill the editor?
Please do not give me just a fragment of an answer… please?
Your profile (to the left of your comment) says Windows but you have asked the question in the Mac part of the user forum and mention OS X, so you are running the Mac version of Scrivener? Which version?
The Appearance settings should affect the current document. (The key is that these are display settings, not formatting settings.)
If the text is failing to reflow, make sure it isn’t trapped in an invisible table. View -> Text Editing -> Show Invisibles will show table gridlines if they exist.
Katherine