Here are some notes I took on Pages - Scrivener round-tripping
on the Mac:
⁃ exporting Scrivener documents to RTF keeps comments and footnotes (inline and inspector)
⁃ but Pages doesn’t import either when importing to RTF
⁃ exporting Scrivener documents to DOCX keeps comments and footnotes (inline and inspector)
⁃ Pages imports the inline comments and footnotes successfully
⁃ comments (not smart annotations) in Pages exported to DOCX import successfully in Scrivener
⁃ but line spacing and most likely some other formatting gets messed up in the process
⁃ Comments/footnotes that are sent as inline come back as inspector
conclusion:
⁃ use DOCX and prepare to fix style on re-import to Scrivener
on iOS
⁃ In Scrivener: Share sheet > open in another app > Word (selected format) > Copy to Pages
⁃ In Pages: Export > Word > Copy to Scrivener
⁃ results seem to be the same as on the Mac but the whole process is cleaner because the Word documents used for the transfer don’t get saved to the file system so there’s no need to go back and delete them
Conclusion:
⁃ Do the export / import on iOS if possible