If no, perhaps someone can offer advice on the following: A colleague, who lives in another city, is going to proof a manuscript that I’ve drafted in Scrivener. He will read the PDF online, but wants to record his suggested changes on a notepad (physical pencil and paper). We need a way to clearly communicate with each other over the phone. We thought that numbered paragraphs would be good, as he could say “in paragraph 127 I suggest that you …”
Any thoughts on how to achieve this? FYI that he’s a bit old-school and is not comfortable using software to mark up the PDF on-screen.
Start (or end) each paragraph with the auto-number tag <$n> – that gets replaced by sequential numbers at compile time.
There’s a whole bunch of such tags, see Help | Placeholder Tags List… for all of them.
Other ways you could go about it - start each paragraph with a particular character(s) that you’re not going to use elsewhere in your text, say, ##, then at compile, in the replacements section have it replace ## with <$n>.
Alternately, make sure your text is split so that each paragraph is a separate document in the binder*. Then in compile go to Formatting | Section Layout… add a Title Prefix of <$n>, and on the Title Appearance tab set title as a run-in head.
if you don’t want to do that manually, File | Export your document, then File | Import and Split, and hit return (¶) in the Sections Separated by… box
There was a slight problem, when it came to the first revision of the manual, in that a book about Scrivener’s compile time placeholder tags was rather difficult to compile as tags instead of as what the tags do when you compile.
We since fixed that so people can now write about Scrivener with <$tag>, but the Mac list never got around to being included; there is a pointer in Appendix C on where to go.
That’s very funny. There should be a special term for a piece of writing software that can/cannot produce its own manual. I was going to suggest ‘self-instructive’, but that seems to be applicable in both conditions.
I surely overlooked it! 
