I opened up an older project to do some editing and found that for some reason everything is stuck at a fixed width in spite of how wide my editor is set. The whole project is stuck at 6 1/2 inches and I would rather type with just a normal word-wrap based on the actual width of the screen instead of this set width.
How can I go about changing this? I’ve looked through the Options>Editor and can’t find that setting.
I know I’ve had the same problem but can’t remember what I did so. I do know that one of my more successful ‘fixes’ was to increase the text scale, I’ve presently got mine sitting at 200%.
I can’t remember what Scrivener v1’s menu was for this, but look up “fixed width editor” in the manual. It’s likely in Appearance section (if that existed for v1?) of Settings.
V. 1 does not seem to have a fixed-width editor option. There is no mention of it in the manual, nor is it found in Tools > Options > Editor. The editor settings ruler there does seem to include left and right margins or indentations. Mine are set to the max, but do not seem to actually affect “margins,” since when I expand the window to full screen or any other width, the text rewraps to fit the window width, as Tungstenrain describes his desired appearance to be.
All of which raises the question which version Tungstenrain is using. Are you using the beta of v. 3? Does that have a fixed-width editor option, and if so, can that be reset to fix the problem with the older project?
I had forgotten that. Was there a “page view” setting as with version 3’s View->Text Editing menu?
It’s also possible that a right indent got set, which is behaves similarly to setting a page size in standard word processors, but which always ends up tripping people up.
I’m using V1.9.16.0 - 14 Nov 2019
The fixed width issue seems to be set on a ruler or something (even when the ruler is not there). None of my other projects have this issue, though. So, I’m confused why on this older project it seems intent on sticking to 6 1/2 inches.
Nope, no page view either–no Text Editing submenu under View, and nowhere else in View either.
Right indent does sound promising.
It would be worth looking at Tools > Options > Editor (if you haven’t already). The editor settings ruler there could have been gotten set to a right indent, as rdale suggests. In that case, you’d have to move it all the way to the right, hit OK, and then use Documents > Convert > Formatting to Default Text Style in each document.
So, I went into Tools > Options > Editor and there is a right indent set. However, I cannot remove it. Also, looking at a newer project, it has the same settings, but it doesn’t have the issue of being stuck at the 6 1/2 inches.
Interestingly enough, if I copy/paste some lorem ipsum into the page, it ignores the 6 1/2 inches setting and goes full width. The original text remains at 6 1/2.
If you turn on Show Invisibles, is the text. In question in a table by any chance? I understand that can happen if it was pasted in from a web page, for example?
Mark
I didn’t paste my text from a website. All of it was typed. How do I turn on/off Show invisibles? I can’t seem to find it.
Sorry, I’ve never used Windows v.1 so I don’t actually know, but I’d look under the various possibilities under the View menu … it’s there in Mac v. 3 under Editing or something like that—I’m not on my Mac at the moment.
Alternatively it might be available under options somewhere as a default view.
Mark
Found it: Format > Options > Show/Hide Invisible Characters
That is one serious complaint I have. Why can’t there be some consistency between the platforms? It makes it hard to troubleshoot and resolve problems when all the documentation I can find is exclusively for mac.
The show/hide invisible characters showed me, as with my other projects, that I created a new paragraph, but it doesn’t help me with the fixed-width. About the only solution I have found is to copy it into Notepad, strip all formatting from it, and pasting it into a new project. A tedious way to do things.
Okay. I found a solution to this problem. I went to Tools > Options and double-checked my default settings for font size, etc. Then I selected all (Ctrl-A) and went to Documents > Convert > Text to Default Settings.
This put all the text in the correct font and removed the stupid fixed width nonsense.
Thanks everyone for all your input and help!
Glad to hear it’s fixed!