Thanks to Keith and your development team for Scrivener 2.0!
Insofar, it has been an excellent experience. Definitely a leap from the already great Scrivener 1.54.
Thank you very much!
Love the increased custom colours, and the highlighting when I have the alternate editor on. Much easier to see which one is active! there’s more to explore for me, but I definitely am very happy with what I see so far!
I have some questions though, they may already be part of the Scrivener Suite but I probably couldn’t find the configuration settings for it:
How do I add my own Presets
How can my previous projects “inherit” the new fonts and rulers (tabs, spacings, etc)
Why is it that the “vertical” editors (when alternate editor is on) are irregular in width, and adjustments only make either one bigger/smaller? (not a big deal, just wondering if it’s deliberate for a reason and its use)
Just select some text in the editor formatted with the style you want for your preset, and then use Format > Formatting > New Preset From Selection.
You can select documents in the binder and use Documents > Convert > to Default Formatting to change the formatting of selected documents so that they use the formatting set in your preferences.
I’m not sure what you mean here. If you move the vertical divider, one editor should get smaller as the other gets bigger.
Thanks Keith. Helpful. I’m working my way with Scrivener 2.0 now.
Regarding the 3rd point, which I wasn’t clear on, I meant that, in the vertical editors view, both vertical editors are not equal in width (unlike in Scrivener 1.0). And they can’t seem to be made equal in width… one has to be bigger another has to be smaller, and it’s “fixed” size (it’s either Big or Small, Big has big’s width, Small has small’s width). Is there a reason for this?
Actually this hasn’t changed since 1.x at all - the way the splits work is exactly the same. The minimum widths are now a little wider for various reasons, so that may be affecting the widths you see initially, but 1.x never had any code that would intentionally make both editors the same width.
You should be able to drag the divider and get them about equal (granted, I’ve never actually measured, but mine look equal to me…), and once you’ve done that you can use View>Layout>Show Layouts to save the view settings so that you can easily switch back to it without having to go through all the finagling again.
If you are working on a small screen and lack sufficient horizontal width for your two-editor views, toggle the Inspector (shift-cmd-I) and/or Binder (shift-cmd-B) out of the way while you work.
