Recently I find myself copying and pasting lots of text from AI into Scrivener.
I find the AI’s propensity to ignore line and paragraph spacing requirements a bit of a drag.
I’d like to create a MacOS level keyboard shortcut, like I have for about a dozen other Scrivener app situations, for the following scrivener app pull down menu:
Format>Paragraph>Line and Paragraph Spacing…
Unfortunately when I do, I don’t receive the Line and Paragraph Spacing… pop up window enabling me to set line space.
I think @November_Sierra has probably answered your main question, but as a matter of interest, couldn’t you be using Paste and Match Style (cmd-opt-shift-v) for this purpose, which is designed to adopt the in-place line and paragraph spacing (amongst other things), without having to make the adjustments manually?
This is so useful that many people swap the shortcuts around so that you use cmd-v for Paste and Match Style, and reserve cmd-opt-shift-v for those times when you don’t care about the style.
An alternative to Paste and Match Style (which will lose italics and bold face if present and important), I prefer to paste normally and use Documents -> Convert -> Text to Default Formatting… (for which you can set a shortcut).
All of this presumes you want your text to match the default style for the project. If you need it in a special style, like Block Quote, as long as you have set that up (and given it a shortcut), all you should need to do is apply that style.
As a further suggestion, it might be worth running Zap Gremlins periodically on pasted in text.
@xiamenese Thanks for the quick response. When I saw your Documents->Convert->Text to Default Formatting, I recognized I was missing the en dash “-” in my keyboard short cut.
Thanks for the quick response. When I saw your Documents->Convert->Text to Default Formatting, I recognized I was missing the en dash “-” in my keyboard short cut.
I’m using AI chat quite a bit in an operating environment where I’m coming and going in and out of lots of settings where the Paste and Match Style is changing frequently. Now with the single Command + L able to bring up the line and paragraph spacing popup window, with the paragraph spacing preset from last usage, I’m good to go in a dynamic operating environment.
