Don’t have that option. Or it’s hidden, as so many unfortunately are.
@pseingalt you’re looking in Preferences. You should be looking in Project Settings.
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Just a guess, but it might be greyed out because you haven’t redefined the default setting.
I tried that in Preferences. It didn’t stick.
Okay, it’s unchecked (that’s why you can’t edit the formatting), which is good. Don’t change anything there.
Now go back into the Scrivener → Preferences…
Unless the content of the pink box doesn’t look the way you want it to look, we’re not quite done yet.
And of course, I can’t redefine font/size here because it won’t let me.
Yes, you can. You just don’t know how. Yet. We’ll fix that next.
Changed the font/size there. The size change took place; but not the font.
How did you try to change it?
This might work:
- In the Binder, select all the documents and folders in your project;
- Right-click (control-click) on them to bring up the contextual menu;
- From the contextual menu, select New Folder From Selection
- This will move all the documents into a new enclosing folder;
- Click on the new enclosing folder;
- Set the View Mode to Scrivenings;
- This should display all your documents in a continuous scroll;
- Select All;
- Change the style;
- All the documents should be reformatted;
- Highlight all the subdocuments in the Binder;
- Drag them out of the enclosing folder;
- Delete the enclosing folder.
Preferences=>Editing=>Formatting.
Click on “Aa”. Font dialogue comes up. Select Bembo Std=>Regular=>11
Close dialogue. Default is now Palatino 11 for No Style.
That’s pretty involved. I will need a clear head to do all that, will try tomorrow as it’s already 2100 here. Thank you all.
Sounds right and wrong at the same time. Did the font change in the preview window? (the “pink box”).
Yes.
Not that it matters, but I wasn’t concerned about the editor at all while drafting. I thought, “it will be easy enough to fix everything in Compile.”
Ha ha ha.
It is. Both in the Editor and in Compile. So, we have the correct default formatting now in Preferences? Yes?
Select one document in the binder. Then in the menu: Documents → Convert → Text to Default Formatting…
It seems like one of you guys speak about the compiler, while the other speak about the editor…Just what i read from it.
I tried that. The rogue formatting doesn’t change.
And the rogue formatted text has “No Style”? Literally no style. Not a “No Style” named style you created or something?
I was compiling to see if the suggestions worked; i.e., if the text formatted as “No Style” changed from 13 pt. Palatino to 11 pt Bembo.