Topic: Scrivener

Scrivener running on Windows 10: Are you using this and if so, do you have any problems pasting your content into this site? Fixes? Thanks

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2 Reply by Norm d'Plume (edited by Norm d'Plume 2016-10-25 02:57:20)

Re: Scrivener

Unless it's changed in the past two years, there is no automated way of going back and forth with an editor. It can generate a Word file and you can then use Word's track changes/comments to work with your editor. When that's done, you cut and paste bits (scenes?) of the Word file back into Scrivener. I'd be very interested if someone has found an easier way to handle that.

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Re: Scrivener

THanks Norm,

Ugghh, I was using Story Mill on mac, but now on an HP/Win10. Same deal you mention on Story Mill. Perhaps Google Docs is the best and simplistic way to start up my writing again.

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Re: Scrivener

I'm still using Word for Windows 7. Since I switched from Explorer to Google Chrome, I've noticed that when I paste a document onto the site, I lose my paragraph separations and my italics. So I have to go through editing to correct the errors. Anyone know what the problem is and how I can avoid it?

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Re: Scrivener

max keanu wrote:

THanks Norm,

Ugghh, I was using Story Mill on mac, but now on an HP/Win10. Same deal you mention on Story Mill. Perhaps Google Docs is the best and simplistic way to start up my writing again.

I was using Google Docs years ago. None of the export options to get it into Word worked completely. I think I just finally cut & pasted, created the styles I needed in Word, and then went through the whole draft, applying styles manually. It's not as bad as it sounds. Set everything to Normal first, then go through applying other styles where needed. Google still enhances Docs, so hopefully the export options work better now.

Also, be aware that Docs only supports about a half dozen styles, most of them headings. It's been like that forever. The only way to create your own is to modify one of the existing styles. I don't think you can rename them, though, so you may have a style called Heading 3 that you use to format indented text, an epigraph, or whatever you're trying to highlight. The other option is to use the default styles as is, and manually format wherever you need formatting other than Normal and Headings. The lack of user-defined styles was a key reason I bought a refurbished Windoze machine over the cheaper Chromebooks..

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Re: Scrivener

jack the knife wrote:

I'm still using Word for Windows 7. Since I switched from Explorer to Google Chrome, I've noticed that when I paste a document onto the site, I lose my paragraph separations and my italics. So I have to go through editing to correct the errors. Anyone know what the problem is and how I can avoid it?

I'm also using Win 7/Word 2007/Google Chrome. Same problem as you. I just manually go through it to fix the chapters after I publish them. I haven't raised it with Sol.

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Re: Scrivener

I'm still using Word for Windows 7. Since I switched from Explorer to Google Chrome, I've noticed that when I paste a document onto the site, I lose my paragraph separations and my italics. So I have to go through editing to correct the errors. Anyone know what the problem is and how I can avoid it?

Try saving it as an .rft file or an .html file and paste it. See if that works better. Let me know.

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Re: Scrivener

I type everything in WordPerfect X8 on a Windows 7 operating system. When it comes time to post, I open Word 07, cut 'n paste, then cut 'n paste from Word into the site here. This preserves all of my formatting, including hard returns and spaces and italics. The only thing I correct are centering the section break asterisks.

When I try to cut 'n paste from WordPerfect, I lose a lot of the formatting. That leads me to believe it's the styles thing in Word that this site works with. But I refuse to use Word as my main word processor since it doesn't have Reveal Codes, which gives WordPerfect users absolute control over their documents (among other numerous reasons).

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Re: Scrivener

I type everything in WordPerfect X8 on a Windows 7 operating system. When it comes time to post, I open Word 07, cut 'n paste, then cut 'n paste from Word into the site here. This preserves all of my formatting, including hard returns and spaces and italics. The only thing I correct are centering the section break asterisks.

You could also try savings the document as an .rtf or .html from Wordperfect. You might not need to use Word at all.

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