option to turn off rich text and go plain text only

Scrivener Wish List
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so this might be beyond the scope of scrivener but it would be a nice addition for people working with MMD, html, xml and would even open scrivener up for use in coding…

the community has been great in providing me with tips on how to emulate this workflow but i think it might be cool to have a global option to shut off rich text and work with simple plaintext ascii - stuff like fonts (fixed width of course) and font size and font color would be simple global view option for every editor but nothing more - not embedded in the text itself…

even for non coders, the ability to just deal with content without worrying about presentation is very liberating and it seems to be totally in keeping with scrivener’s methodology and excellent compile feature set.

also, if we’re going in this direction, having an option for line numbers would be nice as well.

this would make scrivener a very viable “text editor for writers” as well as what it already is and that’s not a bad bullet point to have on the feature list.

thanks.

jin

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Sorry to say, there aren’t any plans for this. The problem is that the software has evolved around the rich text format as a method for implementing a number of its features and it would take an awful lot of work to implement them in another fashion which could be used with plain-text—especially since there would not be a terribly huge amount of gain in how you use the program. Right now if you use it like a plain-text editor (ignore and turn off all of the formatting stuff), and compile using plain-text output formats, there isn’t much you would gain from actually having plain-text over that.

Line numbering, on the other hand, is on the list of things to do.

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cool.

yeah, not a big deal and there’s definitely ways to essentially get this workflow with what exists already.

but I’m psyched about line numbering! it seems like the Mac version has it already?

sweeeeet.

anyhoo, great work on the latest update. thanks much. rock on.

jin