Formatting a word e.g. bold by just putting the edit mark in there (as opposed to having to select an array).
Cross Referencing.
Template function for documents like in OSX version.
Save/Load for line spacing tweakments.
Stay compatible to WinXP. (Yeah. You know why.)
Compile window is non-modal like in OSX version, so I actually can copy and paste formatting from one entry to another like shown in one of the videos, instead of having to do all the formatting like n times over.
Mouse-free operation. Especially when navigating between documents.
That wouldn’t make much sense, and would be against how standard word processors work. What if you wanted to italicise the middle of a word while typing?
What sort of cross-referencing do you mean? If you mean for bibliographies and suchlike, we deliberately leave that to third-party programs with expertise in the area, such as Endnote, to scan the RTF file upon Compile.
All OS X functions will be coming eventually, as explained elsewhere. Document templates will be coming with version 2.0.
I’m not quite sure what you mean here.
I’m not quite sure what you mean here, either - the OS X compile window is modal too. The only copy and pasting is done within the “Formatting” pane. This is something that should be coming to the Windows version, though - I’ll check with the Windows team on this.
There are already many keyboard shortcuts, so I’m not sure what you’re after here.
I don’t know what that means, I’m afraid.
Incidentally, there’s no need to re-post - we read all items in the wish list area but we don’t always get a chance to respond to them. That doesn’t mean we’re ignoring them, though. We do take the Windows version seriously.
I’m afraid not. MS Word is definitive standard word processor and even it can do this.
Who would want to italicise mere parts of a word more often than italicise the word as a whole?
I see. CR are realized as Scrivener Links right now, linking at least to whole documents. But it could also be used referencing to text inside a document.
Third Party: As far as the word format goes, CR fields have to be specified and enabled in the file format itself. You cant get there as a third party programmer if you dont want to risk your software/plugin created text to be incompatible to the norm altogether.
E.g. File, Compile, Formatting, DB Line Spacing. These configurations could be saved and loaded into another formatting. As of now, I have to remember all seven of them if I want to achieve conclusive formatting throughout.
Please watch the video CompilingStructureOutlineLarge.mov, starting from about 1:21. It is clearly shown there that one can still select Copy in the main menu and copy formats and transfer them to other formats. That’s called non-modal on windows platform. As opposed to modal which means I can’t reach the main menu, or the Copy function. Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V won’t work either, which means I have to do the formatting for each format template separately and manually.
(This, by the way, was the very moment when I felt not being taken seriously as a windows user.)
OK. That might just be me being new to the program. Sorry.
Like a VBA interface in which I can program/reprogram functions the way I see fit. (OK. I know I’m being totally utopian here
Ah, I see what you mean. You have me there. I don’t use Word much, and most Mac apps (me being the Mac programmer) don’t have this. (For writing fiction, though, it’s not uncommon to italicise part of a word for emphasis.) I’ll leave this one to Lee.
This comes up occasionally and is on the long list for consideration.
You mean like formatting presets, where you can select some text and have several types of formatting applied at once? This is a feature of the Mac version which will be coming to Scrivener for Windows.
I designed Scrivener and I program the Mac version, so I know exactly what you are talking about - but the Mac window is still in fact modal. A modal window is one that doesn’t let you access other windows beneath it. Windows and OS X differ in that the menu bar is separate from the window on OS X, meaning that it is always available even when working with modal windows, unlike on Windows, where it is not. But copy and paste should still be allowed to work via the keyboard shortcuts even though Compile remains modal, and this is on the list. I’ve checked with the Windows team that this is coming - probably not for the update coming shortly, but hopefully for the one after that.
Because one minor feature hasn’t made it into the Windows version yet? I don’t really understand how that could make you feel as though you weren’t being taken seriously, given the amount of updates the Windows version has seen in the past year. Scrivener 1.x is far more advanced than Scrivener 1.x was. Lee has worked on getting the bigger features in there, and all the smaller refinements will be coming. The Windows version has two people working on it as opposed to one Mac developer, too, but you have to remember that the Windows version has been in development for only about three years as opposed to the Mac version’s seven years. I don’t know how you translate that into not being taken seriously - please read my reply to the thread in which you stated you didn’t think Windows users are being taken seriously, and let me assure you that they definitely are.
Ah, okay. That is something we really want to implement for both versions at some point - on the Mac, I have been putting off adding AppleScript support for years (the OS X equivalent) because other things have always gotten in the way, so I can’t say when anything like this will be added, but it would definitely be nice, I agree.
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