I am using an APA template and when I press enter to start a new line following a style for Heading Level 1 and Level 2 it changes the right margin of that line to 9.5" If I click on the down arrow it snaps back to 7.5", but if I don’t click on it it stays there and throws the whole thing off at compile. I have highlighted it and redefined level 1 with the current settings, but it still jumps to 9.5" when I press enter.
Is this a bug? Any help would be greatly appreciated. If I can’t work this out as a style then when I compile I have to go through and manually take the first line indent out of every heading in the entire document. I like the idea of the editor being only for composing, but it would be nice to have more of the format just set up from the get so I see what it will look like as I write. Thanks.
First, it sounds like you are trying to compensate for a problem that doesn’t actually exist. There is no margin in the Scrivener editor—at least not in the sense that you’re thinking of, like in a word processor. Stuff like a paper and print settings don’t really enter the picture until you compile, and as such the editor shouldn’t be treated like you would a word processor.
So what you’re seeing is the editor reverting to the proper default setting when you press Return: no right indent (which is a separate concept from a margin, at that). It expresses that by drawing the marker almost as far to the right as you can drag it. It’s not really set to 9.5", but it has to put the marker somewhere so you can drag it if you really do need to adjust the wrapping width of text.
My advice would be to clear all right indent settings unless you really need them. Best way to do that is to use the Format ▸ Paragraph ▸ Tab and Indents… panel. Set the right indent to “0.0” to turn it off entirely and allow text to reflow to whatever size paper you compile to.
Well you can simulate that a bit more closely with View ▸ Text Editing ▸ Show Page View. It’s not meant to be a design tool, but it will by default use the currently applied paper and margin metrics assigned by the compiler.