I just upgraded to Snow Leopard, on the advice of the Mac menders who were restoring my computer after a nasty issue with hard drive corruption.
Went into Scrivener and pasted in an email, and went to the menu item Scrivener/Services to look for Reformat, which I use all the time for taking the extra spaces and other junk out of emails. All kinds of juicy other things were there, but not Reformat.
But ther was an item called Services Preferences, so I went into that and checked the box opposite Reformat.
Then I went back to Scrivener and clicked Scrivener/Services/Reformat - and it reformatted the email, but threw me into Full Screen mode, a new and scary experience for me.
I eventually found Window/Exit Full Screen Mode, and got back to the normal view.
But when I clicked on Scrivener/Services again out of curiosity, all the nice little toy-like icons for different things were gone, as was Reformat. There were only two Capture Selection from Screen and Import Image, plus Services Preferences.
Services Preferences, when I go in there, shows a lot of things checked, including Reformat.
What’s happening - and is this the only Snow Leopard problem with Scrivener or are there others?
There are no particular Snow Leopard problems with Scrivener (actually there is one - the default full screen scroller can cause crashes on 10.6, but that is the only issue and will be fixed in 1.54).
Snow Leopard just changed the way you set up Services - instead of making all of them available, you now need to choose them. “Reformat” is not a Scrivener service. The problem is that the way Apple have organised the services makes it bloomin’ impossible to tell which service belongs to which application - I mean, they could have at least organised the services by application. For Scrivener 2.0 I’ve had to rename the services to include the word “Scrivener”, to make it obvious which services belong to it. Thanks Apple!
I have no idea what “Reformat” is or which application it belongs to, but I wonder if you ended up getting the text placed in a different application rather than Scrivener, as Scrivener certainly doesn’t respond to that service.
You need to look for the services entitled “Make New Clipping” And “Append to Current Document” (I can’t remember what they are called offhand as I only have 2.0’s services available on my system).
Thanks, Keith. Hm, that’s odd - I’ve been using Format (sorry, that’s what it’s called - Format is the menu item, and Reformat is the submenu item you chose from its submenu) for ages. You select all the copy and use it and it takes out all those huge spaces and >s that emails put in.
I had closed Scrivener, but relaunched it on reading your reply, and looked at Services and found none whatsoever this time - only the Services Preferences and ‘No Services Apply’. I went into Services Preferences from here and checked the two Scrivener services you suggested, closed the prefs and looked again at Scrivner - nope, nothing; closed Scrivener and relaunched - still nothing. V odd.
You may need to log out and log in again - sometimes services don’t take effect until you do - although I wouldn’t have thought that would be necessary. It’s a bit difficult to troubleshoot this, as it’s not a Scrivener problem but just getting the services set up on your computer. Services in Snow Leopard are context-senstive, though, so you would have to have some text selected somewhere before bringing up the services menu, so that there was something for Scrivener’s services to do.
Best,
Keith
Looking at Word Service now, I’ve just downloaded it from versiontracker.com - it looks good. Thanks!
Odd, though, that the Services are gone. I’m suspicious of how this little computer’s been behaving recently - it was just saved from a nasty episode of hard drive corruption yesterday, at large cost (€80!)
Aha, downloaded Word Service and found that I already had it in the Services folder in my User Library; however, I’m not seeing it in the list of Services after logging out and in again.
I restarted Scrivener, and this time had the two Scrivener Services, but nothing else. Totally bizarre.
Would the other services be relevant when you called up the services menu? As I say, Snow Leopard’s services menu is contextual, so it only shows the services you can use at the moment it is called up - it won’t show all services each time. Could that be the case here?
Ah, Kevin, you have solved the problem. When I selected the text and then clicked Scrivener/Services, the longer menu came up. Selecting must give it a context. Whew!
Aghhaa!! Haaaaa!!Haaaaa!! Im crackin up!! me bellys killin me Aghhaaaaa!! I need the bloody loo now!! :laughing: :laughing: I dont think I can handle much more of this Kevin business. I`m gonna have to download WriteRoom.
One further small point - and I put this here because I think it may be related to having installed the new OS - Scrivener seems to be using an American dictionary - it doesn’t like ‘colour’, for instance, and prefers ‘color’.
I’ve had a look at Scrivener’s Help, and at the System Preferences (the System Preferences list British English at the top in the order of preference), but can’t see if there’s a way to change the dictionary used. Is there?
Glad you found the solution! Snow Leopard does seem a bit funny about which dictionary it uses, but don’t worry, I’d never have Scrivener force a US dictionary on you, especially as I’m a Brit myself.
All the best,
Kevin, no, wait…
So odd! It’s gone again! I ran Cocktail and Onyx to repair disk permissions, etc, and Word Services’ Format/Reformat option is gone from Scrivener again. I can’t understand why this happens!
I re-downloaded it and reinstalled it, and it’s fine now - and I’ve kept the disk image in my Installers folder for the future - but it’s odd.
