I’m learning my way around Scrivener and one thing I need to be able to do is create a project template with custom tab stops. I need to be able to begin the first line of each chapter or section full out to the margin, with the subsequent paragraphs indented. Is there a way to set this globally so I don’t have to fix it manually in every document/project?
Scrivener > Preferences > Formatting … allows users to set the text style (incl tabs) for new documents.
Does this do what you want?
Yes, Scrivener can do this popular form of typesetting for you. Only in odd cases that do not match the common layout patterns will you need to bother with making sure indents are correct on a paragraph. You’ll find more details in this recent post. The technique can be used with or without override formatting (which, if you aren’t familiar, can clean up formatting for you so that you needn’t worry about this stuff while trying to write).
For the sake of trivia however, you can set up custom formatting (and thus custom tab stops) on a project-specific basis, and save those into a project template. Use the Project/Text Preferences… command to do so. This will not do any kind of adaptive “no indent here but everywhere else” type thing, to be clear—it’s just a way of using different fonts and such in the main editor than the global application defaults.
Thanks! That’s all helpful. A little frustrating I can’t see it the way I want it while I write but I guess as long as it all works out in the end formatting, that’s fine. 