I’m trying to go as directly as I can from Scrivener to Scribus. I got the ePub compile working well. But when I try to go to .odt as an intermediate format to import into Scrivener, the last paragraph in each scene comes out in bold in a font I never selected [P052].
How can I recompile to fix this without having to hand-edit every scene?
If you have issues importing an .odt file in Scrivener, you should open that file in LibreOffice and then save it as RTF. Then, import that .rtf file instead.
That alone should be enough to fix your problem.
It doesn’t have to be LibreOffice, of course, but I wouldn’t know what other app to recommend.
LibreOffice is my go to third party app.
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If it is the other way around (your post is a tad confusing, like it is bi-directional), say you only want to compile, there is nothing to import in Scrivener, you can do somewhat the same.
Compile to RTF (Scrivener’s native format), then use LibreOffice to save as ODT (LibreOffice’s native format).
Then do your thing, using the ODT resulting file.
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If compiling to RTF you still have the same issue, than it is something that is set wrong in your compile format. (Let us know.)
Now my problem is that I’m not getting the small caps to start each section after a break as I specified in Compile. I can put the thing together without this, but I’d like to have it as it looks better. I’ve tried compiling to .odt, .rtf, docx, on Windows and on Linux. The small caps don’t make it into the output, although they do show up in the Compile preview window.
I really don’t need to lose any more hair over this…
Edit To Add: But they do show up, from the same source file, when I compile to ePub.
I think that must be a font issue, because e-books do not contain embedded fonts when compiled by Scrivener.
What if you compile to TNR?
All right, I think I’ve got this one sorted out…although I still don’t know why.
I was trying to create a style for block quotations, and for that I used a left and a right indent. Somehow that right indent got into the default formatting for the body text, and then into the compile, and was messing it up and causing a margin issue with the final import to Scribus. Once I found and removed the right indent, the problem resolved. Go figure.
