Hi guys,
(Note — I know we can do custom meta-data using the “Meta-Data Settings” dialog, but that’s not the kind of thing I’m referring to here).
On the Project Properties pane of the Meta-Data Settings dialog, it’d be nice if there were three additional fields: “Subtitle” and “Middle Initial,” “Publisher” and “Contact Info” section containing fields for address, phone, and email address. (Hear me out on this one.) I know its possible to use opt-Return to make a line-break in the title field, but wouldn’t it be simpler if there were simply an optional field called “Subtitle”? And as for the second request, well, I’m an author who uses his middle initial a lot in his writing, and I don’t fancy putting into the “Forename” field, since that could cause confusion elsewhere. This field could be optional, like Subtitle. The “Publisher” field would be for all us self-publishers, since both the iBooks and Smashwords require you to choose a publisher name for yourself. Finally, the “Contact Info” section would allow the user to override the information that Scrivener finds in their address book (which isn’t always a reliable way of getting author information, though it does give you user information. (For instance, a teenage girl who writes a novel or story using her mother’s copy of Scrivener, an older man who uses a copy residing on his son’s computer,someone who uses their roommate’s computer to write, or any number of a dozen other circumstances.)
I think that adding these fields to Project Properties gives them a bit more visibility in the interface, as well as a bit more of prominent location and permanence from one project to the next, as well as gives the user more flexibility in terms of how they manage their Project.
Anybody else think this (or something similar) is a good idea?
—Andy H.