Listed below are some minor issues I found while working thru the tutorial for Scrivener for Windows beta version 0.0.29. In the following comments, Pn/Sm refers to Tutorial Part n, Step m –- e.g. P1/S2 refers to Tutorial Part 1, Step 2.
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Scrivener doesn’t remember where you were on the page when switching between docs. For example, in P1/S1 it says to click on “Alhambra” then click on “Step 1: Beginning”; this works, but the text window is scrolled back to the top of the text instead of remembering where it was (reading the word “Alhambra”) near the bottom of the text.
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P1/S2: Text says the following:
While we’re here, note that the selection highlight in the binder does not necessarily follow what is being displayed in the main editor—if you change the contents of the editor using the navigation arrows, for instance, the selection in the binder will not change. You can thus navigate around using the header view without losing track of the original document on which you were working in the binder.
However, the highlighted selection only remains the same when the history arrows (the black arrows on the left) are tapped; if the white arrows are tapped, the highlighted selection changes. Either this is a bug, or “navigation arrows” really should have said “history navigation arrows.”
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P1/S3: View > Reveal in Binder (Ctrl+Shift+8) doesn’t work. If Binder is clicked on in empty area so that nothing is highlighted and then Ctrl+Shift+8 is entered, nothing is highlighted. Similarly, if the history arrow is clicked to go back a page, this also doesn’t work to show the current (i.e. original) document.
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P1/S3: Scriptwriting mode does nothing – no pop-up menu.
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P1/S4: Last instructions in this tutorial step say:
…move the cursor to the bottom of the screen and click on the “Go To” icon so that the menu appears. Then, choose Draft > Part 1: Basics > Step 5: The Inspector.
This works fine – the P1/S5 page is displayed. The first sentence in P1/S5 then says
You can leave full screen mode now by hitting the Escape key on your keyboard.
However, when this is done, Scrivener returns to the P1/S4 page; it should probably stay on the P1/S5 page.
- P1/S5e: Part way down, the tutorial says,
A quick way of searching for documents that have been assigned particular keywords is to select the keywords you want to search for in the Project Keywords dialog and then click on the “Search” button at the bottom.
If you try this, the Binder shows the folders that match the search criteria, but it’s not at all obvious how to go back to showing all of the folders in the Binder. I finally figured out that by right-clicking on one of the Search items and then selecting “Reveal in Binder” that I could get back to the full Binder view, but the tutorial should explicitly state how to do this.
- P2/S11: The tutorial says the following:
We already did (1) in Step 7, so let’s try viewing arbitrary documents this time. Once you’ve finished reading this paragraph, click on “START HERE” at the top of the binder and then, holding down the Shift key, click on “Step 7: Changing Editor Views” and “Step 11: Scrivenings”, so that all three documents get selected.
Perhaps this works differently on the Mac, but in Windows you need to hold down the Ctrl key, not the Shift key, to select 3 documents that are not contiguous in the list of files.
It now has a little crash-course in how to get out of a search result. By the way the best way is usually to click the ‘X’ in either the search toolbar or the bottom of the binder sidebar as that will restore the binder to how you left it, whereas Reveal can cause you to end up elsewhere, naturally.