word processor paragraph styles

[ToddPeperkorn]

Is there any good way to use scrivener with paragraph styles? Some sort of export trick I haven’t figured out yet? I’d appreciate any wisdom you might have.

[AmberV]

From the FAQ

How can I export Scrivener styles into my word processor?

You can’t. This is one of those areas where Scrivener is limited by how much Apple has included in their text engine, since developing the features required for full stylesheet support and interchange would require significant coding effort (probably an entire year’s worth) this would effectively mean shutting down the development process for Scrivener’s primary features to duplicate the efforts already existing in word processors.

Use the “find by format” features that are supplied in most word processors to assign stylesheets once your draft has been exported. In most cases, this should not be necessary as most editors do not care if stylesheets exist in a document or not.

[ptram]

If you are using Nisus Writer, there is a possible, easy workaraound. If you used different character attributes (like bold, size…) there are chances this may work.

First of all, assign to all the text imported into Nisus the basic paragraph style (Normal, Body Text, or whatever it is called in your document).

Then, move the cursor anywhere in the differently styled text; in the lower margin of the window you should see an underlined, bold ‘a’ appearing. Click on it, and choose the “Select all” command from the pop-up menu. All text with the same character attributes of the current text should be selected.

At this point, assign the selected text a paragraph style (like, for example, Heading 1 or the like).

Paolo