Scrivener is stupidly and ridiculously good - an excellent invention. And the outliner is particularly splendid.
I think this request has been made before but I’m not sure what’s happening with it. Sorry if I’m repeating what other people have said. Anyway, it would be great if I could print out my outline exactly as it appears in Scrivener. It’s really useful being able to see it as a table with colour-coding for different points of view. I just wish I could print it out and look at it on the bus.
I have exported just the chapter names and descriptions as you recommend, which is useful but a bit of a hassle and not so clear as the table view.
One other very minor thing: I’ve only just realised that clicking on the ‘type’ icon in the outline view brings up that document for editing. It would be helpful if ‘edit’ were one of the items in the right-click context menu.
Keep up the good work. Writing Scrivener is almost certainly the most useful displacement activity that any writer has ever come up with.
KB, I think you just found the best tag line ever. Get DMJ to put that in what remains of his window (or at least have him paint in on the neighbors car).
Hey Chris. Sorry to butt in on your thread, but after I clean the coffee off the monitor, keyboard, desk, shirt, and out my nose, I will get out of the way.
2.0 will make printing the outliner easier, with colours used to highlight titles and levels indented. It’s not really possible to print the outliner as-is, as the outliner control (part of OS X) isn’t really designed for printing - the columns can sprawl off anything that could fit on paper, there are buttons and pop-ups and so on, so it needs a different representation on paper. But hopefully 2.0’s solution will be a decent way of printing.
To open items in the outliner you can use the “Open” keyboard shortcut, available via the menus, as well as double-click on the type icon.