I’ve had scrivener for about a day now, and I’ve really enjoyed messing around with it, but I think I’ve hit a brick wall in trying to make something happen. For each of my chapters, I have the indent set through the ruler. However, for stylistic reasons, there is one particular paragraph in each chapter that I do NOT want indented. This is easy enough to do in the text page, but when I go to compile it to see what it looks like, the compiling process automatically indents every paragraph in my chapter. I’ve tried a lot of things to un-indent just that one paragraph, but nothing seems to be working. Do you guys know if there’s any way I might be able to get this done?
This will be easier in the new Version 3 (currently in Beta).
For the current version, from memory, I think you have to select the paragraph without the indent and click Preserve Formatting (it’s on the Format menu somewhere). Note, I think this will retain all the formatting, so if your compilation format uses a different font etc, then you’ll have to make sure this paragraph already has it.
Sorry about the lack of precision in this answer: I don’t have the current version installed.
This solution is far better than anything else I tried to do. Thanks a lot! And your answer was pretty much exact. For anyone checking this thread with the same issue, just highlight the text, then go to Format -> Formatting -> Preserve Formatting.
Hopefully version 3 comes to Windows soon to make it easier, since my compilation font is different from the one I use to write. But at the speed I write, version 4 will probably be out by the time I’m done.
For future reference, in version 3 there will be stylesheet support, which has the built-in notion that any text styled should by default act a bit like Preserve Formatting does, though more flexibly. For example if you create a style that only saves the ruler and spacing information, but not the font or other text characteristics, then only the indent would be preserved through any other compile adjustments.
And in a case like this, styles are probably the best way to “say” what you mean as well. This paragraph is special for some reason, and tagging it with a named style is a good way of doing that.