Hello,
I normally use Scrivener for Mac when teaching classes on how to use Scrivener. Now I have a lot of people in the class who use Windows. They want to know how to preserve formatting - for example a block quote for citations or general indentation for poems, code examples and the like.
The Problem: Formatting (for example indenting the whole paragraph for a block quote) and then picking “preserve formatting” in the Windows version works when compiling to pdf. I cannot get the Windows version to work correctly with either epub or mobi. Preserving formatting DOES work on my Mac when compiling the same text to epub or mobi, so I have no idea of what I can do to fix this. I check my output on the kindle previewer.
Instead of preserving the formatting (in this case indenting the whole paragraph) while compiling to an ebook (mobi or epub - it doesn’t matter), scrivener’s compile function only indents the first line (at the point where the whole paragraph in block quote should be) but leaves the other lines in the paragraph at the “normal” margin. In other words the other lines (after the first) of the paragraph which should be a block quote do not indent. Like I said, it works in PDF, but it does not work when compiling to ebook. And yes I am using the latest version - but it was the same with the last version (i thought maybe it was just a bug with the old version).
So, I’m stuck and have no idea what to do. What am I doing wrong?
I would be grateful for some help.
Thank you in advance.
Regards,
Ray