I really find this program interesting and very well designed.
I have a big amount of text files which do not finish with .txt extension and as I see in scrivener I can’t import them. Is there a way or should this become a feature request 
?
Phil
Three quick questions…
- what program were they made with / what is the extension?
- do you still have access to that program?
- what is your favourite colour?
Okay, that last one wasn’t really relevant. But 1 and 2 will help.
A number of formats are supported for import, not just plain-text files. If you can get the documents converted to RTF that would be best.
This has been requested before at least once (by me) and at the time the response (? from Keith) was that such a feature may be incorporated in an update. Perhaps by letting the user assign certain extents as ‘text’. For me, I have files with the extent .log (and it needs to stay that way for other reasons), but it is just a plain text file. Just incorporating it into Scriv lets you read the file, but having Scriv recognize it as a text file gives it other possibilities, such as editing, highlighting (maybe searching, I forget if one can do that anyway).
I very much would like to see this feature incorporated soon.
Don
Oops, sorry, I misread the original. This has indeed been thought over, and a design put together for handling arbitrary extensions for text files. You’ll be able to maintain a list of extensions accepted as plain-text. It’s still in beta for the Mac, and might not end up in the Windows version for a time, but just thought I’d like you know this request has gone from “maybe” to “yes”.
In the meanwhile, copying your .txt files to a temporary folder and then batch renaming them somehow is the best workaround.
I’m still waiting on the favourite colour.
Blue!
No…