I am trying to figure out why Scrivener added random underlining upon compile.
Editor:
After compile:
Is this a “feature” of the Mac text editing engine?
Most likely a “feature” of how you are editing, what compile setting you are using, etc. neither of which you provide any details.
Have you inserted a comment related to the “underlined” text or a link/hyperlink?
@rms: This is why I wish one could force Scrivener to use plain text. This particular chapter comes from a template. There was no underline setting chosen anywhere for the Compile process. I dumped the entire chapter into a text editor, and then substituted that for the template. The underlinings remained on Compile. Perhaps there is an underline trigger when using blank lines; it’s as if I were writing in pure Markdown, which you can’t do in Scrivener because you can’t force Scrivener into a plain text mode.
@Kevitec57: No.
If you can’t do what you want, and your “suspect” is not guilty, then maybe Scrivener is not for you?
That checkmark did cause all the random underlinings.
I’ve been using Scrivener since 2007 and it has served me well in all kinds of scenarios, even in Baghdad during wartime conditions. This particular document is a collection of government forms, templates, laws and what English lawyers call “precedents.” Thus, each chapter is its own book, with its own inconsistent hierarchy. The only common hierarchy is the chapter. A “chunk,” to use an unfortunate word from the Scrivener manual, may be treated very differently in one chapter than it is in another, or for the purposes of a text hierarchy, ignored. I suspect that this document needs the fine-tuning that LaTeX or Mellel can provide.
Or maybe you’re right, I should give up on Scrivener. Lately I’ve been using it more as a wiki because of the ease of collecting source documents.
It’s true that Scrivener is not the best tool if you need highly detailed formatting, especially if that formatting is not consistent throughout the project.
Rather than saying “Scrivener is not for you,” I would instead suggest that perhaps it is time to move this particular project from a “writing” tool to a “formatting” tool.
I think that’s good advice.