Going into page setup in Srivener and changing the page size from a4 to a5 does nothing-the compiled pdf page count is the same.
When compiled to tex, this compile produces a folder containing 20 or so files–I don’t see a file with a LaTeX preamble, so I can’t simply change the page size there.
Also, is it possible to insert a line break for the title when it is too long so that it displays properly on the title page? (this would also be in the LaTeX preamble).
When compiled to tex, this compile produces a folder containing 20 or so files–I don’t see a file with a LaTeX preamble, so I can’t simply change the page size there.
It sounds like you’ve installed your own copy of the MultiMarkdown LaTeX boilerplate files, into your texmf folder. Scrivener checks there, and won’t output its built-in boilerplate copies if it finds them.
So just check in your user texmf, under tex/latex/mmd6 (probably, the latter is up to you).
I haven’t installed MultiMarkdown. I have installed a fully copy of LaTeX. When I compile in Scrivener, it creates a folder with ~14 documents. One of those files appears to be the main .tex file but does not contain a preamble; the others clearly are not. When I run that file through Texshop, I get a very nice pdf. But there’s no place to tweak the preamble (page size, two line title, etc.)
I don’t know how to explain it, then! These settings cannot materialise out of thin air obviously. If Scrivener isn’t exporting about half a dozen .tex files with the preamble stuff, then it’s coming from somewhere. Might be worth scouring the system for mmd6-tufte-book-*.
Nothing to add for a solution but I thank you for the pointer that Tufte-Book is a possible output format, Had to give up on LyX a few years go when they screwed up Tufte-Book and Tufte-Handout processing. But it always felt treasonous to use LyX when I prefer Scrivener as my authoring tool. Saw that someone post to their “support” mailing list and got slapped down for it. Although I noted that the slapee eventually solved their problem. Too late for me as I’d already given up on them and lived with the deep regret of losing Tufte%. Now it appears I can return to using my much prefered format.
You can output directly to a Tufte class pdf from Scrivener. My issue was that I wanted to tweak the output–my title was two long and needed to be broken up, for example. I also wanted to export a smaller paperback than a4 or letter. If those aren’t your issues, the Scrivener output works as advertised.
Otherwise:
You could just output to LaTeX from Scrivener and then use the Tufte book class. Tufte supports letter paper, a4 and 5"x8"; other sizes won’t work. I was hoping that Scrivener might let me write once and publish to different formats without a lot of additional formatting. The Koma-script title pages have me reeling and if only I could avoid that using Scrivener.
There is a b5paper size option but that is a little larger than a5. Been years since I hacked around inside of LaTeX class files but it’s possible to add an a5paper option although it would result in very small margins for references, sidenotes, and marginnotes producing some ugly results, which probably explains why the original authors of the class(es) decide not to support a5 but went for b5 instead.
I don’t know if Ingram supports B5 (or a5 for that matter); I know they support 5 x 8. That was why I wanted to change the paper size directly out of Scrivener without having to trouble shoot other programs.
For me the real usefulness of the Tufte classes is with tufte-handout. As that’s not a standard format for Markdown > LaTex outputing to a file and then changine tuftebook to tuftehandout. Going to do that and think about how a Article (Tufte) format might be made available.
