In my Beta Tutorial Scrivener I have a font toolbar (with drop-down menu). In my actual project Scrivener, I do not. Apparently MAC users can simply click on Format > Font > Show Fonts, but I do not have a “show fonts” option. Is this a bug? Is the toolbar hiding somewhere? Please help!!!
I’m not sure what Lee has in mind for this, but my guess: It’s probably just not wired up yet, or conceptualised. On the Mac, there is a (roughly) system-wide font palette that most programs have access to, and that is all Scrivener is revealing with its menu command. Windows has a similar standard font selection tool, but I’m not sure if it is a floating palette that just applies fonts to whatever currently has the focus—so some reconceptualisation might be necessary to get this idea into something that isn’t too weird for Windows.
Actually, apalimpsest, I think you do have a font menu – it’s just not where you’d expect it.
Try going to Edit/Options/editor and click on the ‘A’ on the displayed font bar. This will bring up your font menu. I ran across this while trying to find a way to set the default font.
The only problem I seem to have encountered was that the default font shows up dandy on a newly created text, but the alignment is for the far right instead of the left. Ah, well. Hopefully it will get cleared up in the recent future.
In Beta 1.3.
There is a working ruler bar in the Edit>Options>Editor.
You can set your font and the settings on the ruler, margins, indent, tab stops, etc.
The setting will affect new documents from then on.
Under the manage button, you can save you preferences. i.e. style.
This doesn’t effect previous documents, that’s what I understand.
I believe Lee is working on improving on the editor functions.
I am just another Scrivener user sharing discoveries.
Thank you for those instructions! You have saved my life. Verdana was killing me. 