OK, I just un-checked the box, “Use different formatting for new documents in this project.” I’ll give it a try.
Just bear in mind that text already formatted a certain way will continue to act that way. To test things, you do want to make a new empty document and type a bit in there to make sure the settings are good.
Once they are, use the article I linked to above, the second part where it goes into cleaning up formatting in existing documents, to fix all of these sections in bulk.
Nothing is working. Thanks so much for trying. I’m giving up at this point. It is obvious that this is way over my head. I have two successful novels out there, and now I’m unable to create anything. I don’t understand why this should be so hard for a old guy like myself. Anyway, I do thank you for your effort.
Well, one thing to consider is something I mentioned above in a tangent: the compiler is designed to clean up formatting automatically, and will do so with most of the built in compile formats. If you started with the Novel template, it is probably even already be all set up to work that way by default, using the “Manuscript (Times)” compile format.
So worst case, you can just live with it looking wrong in the editor, knowing it will at least come out standard in the end. That’s how I work—the way things look in the text editor are nothing like the output. I prefer fixed-width fonts for writing, for one thing.
OK, thanks again. I’m going off to do something else for awhile. If you go on Amazon, you can easily find, “The Longest Road, Whole Lotta Love at Live Aid,” and “Cadillac Hubie.” Both very good books that I did on Scriviner. It’s time to take a break for now. Thank you again, but I think what I really need is for someone to sit down next to me and make this work. Unfortunately, for my generation, things like that are just not available anymore.
Thank you again, but I think what I really need is for someone to sit down next to me and make this work. Unfortunately, for my generation, things like that are just not available anymore.
Well one alternative to someone sitting down with you is us taking a look at your project and fixing it for you. I’d be happy to do so, if you’re willing to share it. I can contact you directly with details if you’re interested.
We will of course keep anything you send confidential to the utmost, and upon request delete any copies we have after getting it fixed and sent back.
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Dear Amber, First I want to thank you for your patient help and diligence with my problem. I slept on it and came up with a fix. I can copy/paste from my PDF onto the Scriviner editor. In order to remove the double carriage spacing I put the cursor on the sentence before the double spacing, hit delete twice and that brings the next (double spaced) sentence up. Then, I hit the tab control until the sentence ends up below… not double spaced. Then, I simply put the cursor in front of that sentence and hit tab once more and it indents just as I like it. I know that sounds tedious, but it is much better than retyping the entire novel. Now, I can go through this process fairly easily and then compile and send the book over to documents for e-pub. Hopefully this will eliminate the file failure causing the book to be rejected.
I do have one more question. I like the book to be aligned both left and right margin. But, that means that some shorter sentences get spread out across the line. If I highlight that one particular sentence, then use the icon to align it to left only, the rest of the chapter gets aligned left, not left/right. Is there a method where I can keep the shorter sentences from becoming widely spaced across the line and still retain the left/right margin? Once again, thank you so much. Rad
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