On my copyright page, I have several lines of text that need to be single spaced as follows…
Published by Propeller Cap, LLC
P.O. Box 44, Brunswick, OH 44212
propellercap.com
However, because the page uses a paragraph spacing after of 8.0 points, the text appears like this instead…
Published by Propeller Cap, LLC
P.O. Box 44, Brunswick, OH 44212
I tried using Format > Preserve Formatting, but it had no effect. Is there a different way to deal with this issue? Thanks!
Hi,
Sorry, I’m not quite following. Do you mean that this text has paragraph formatted applied that is set to use 8pt after? If so, can’t you just change that? Could you please explain a little more?
Thanks!
Keith
The top of my copyright page appears like this in Scrivener 3…
Discovering Love Online: Love May Be Closer Than You Think
Published by Propeller Cap, LLC
P.O. Box 44, Brunswick, OH 44212
propellercap.com
Copyright © 2017 Chuck Miller
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means—including, but not limited to, electronic, mechanical, photocopy or recording—without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exceptions are brief quotations in printed reviews and electronic media.
When I compile it for .mobi, it comes out like this…
Discovering Love Online: Love May Be Closer Than You Think
Published by Propeller Cap, LLC
P.O. Box 44, Brunswick, OH 44212
Copyright © 2017 Chuck Miller
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means—including, but not limited to, electronic, mechanical, photocopy or recording—without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exceptions are brief quotations in printed reviews and electronic media.
Because there’s a hard return ¶ after each line in the pub info and compile is set to apply an 8 point spacing after each paragraph, it’s causing each line of the pub info to have an 8 point spacing after it. I want to tell Scrivener not to alter the text as it appears when compiled. I thought that Format > Preserve Formatting would do that.
Strange, “Preserve Format” should prevent this if it doesn’t have that applied in the editor. But also you should just be able to choose a different Section Layout in Compile, one that doesn’t apply the 8pt spacing after each paragraph. What format are you exporting to?
I’m exporting to .mobi format. I don’t know that changing the section layout will help as I need the 8 points after other paragraphs on the same page. I just need to keep those lines together.
The simplest solution: use line breaks (⌘⌥↵) instead of hard returns in your address?
A more complex solution, flexible: Split the copyright matter into two front matter documents, then you can apply a custom Section Layout to each with different CSS rules, if your layouts dont’ generate titles or seperators then it will look like 1 document in the final output…
A third option just to emphasise how flexible the new compile is! Create a new paragraph style in the editor applied to the address (Style:Address), them in the compile format map it to a CSS style name (.address) that overrides the §aragraph margins:
.address { margin: 0 0 0 0; text-indent: 0; text-align: left; line-height: 1em; }Thanks for the assistance. The first option was exactly what I needed.