Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Manual
Scrivener 2.5 for Mac OS X
Literature & Latte
October, 2013
Revision: 2.5.0-01b
c 20102013, Literature & Latte LTD. All rights reserved.
Contents
Contents ii
Acknowledgements vi
I Introduction 1
1 Philosophy 2
2 About This Manual 5
2.1 Terms and Conventions . 6
2.2 Finding Things . . . . . . . 7
3 Whats New 8
4 Installation and Upgrading 20
4.1 Portable Installations . . . 20
4.2 Registering . . . . . . . . . . 21
4.3 Application Updates . . . 23
4.4 Upgrading from
Scrivener 1 . . . . . . . . . . 24
4.5 Staying Informed . . . . . . 25
5 Interface 26
5.1 Interface Overview . . . . 26
5.2 View Modes . . . . . . . . . 33
5.3 Composition Mode (Full
Screen Editing) . . . . . . . 36
5.4 Selections . . . . . . . . . . . 36
6 Quick Tour 38
6.1 Project Format . . . . . . . 38
6.2 The Main Window . . . . 40
6.3 Outlining Your Draft . . . 41
6.4 Scrivenings Mode . . . . . 44
6.5 More About Corkboards . 45
6.6 Compiling the Draft . . . 46
II Preparation 49
7 Project Management 52
7.1 Project Size Limitations . 52
7.2 Creating a New Project . . 53
7.3 Saving and Making Copies 54
7.4 Opening Existing Projects 54
7.5 Moving and Deleting
Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
7.6 Splitting Projects Up . . . 55
7.7 Templates . . . . . . . . . . 56
7.8 Backing Up Your Work . 62
7.9 Tips for Working Cross-
Platform . . . . . . . . . . . 66
7.10 Sandboxing and Autho-
rised Folders . . . . . . . . . 66
8 Setting Up the Binder 69
8.1 How the Binder is Or-
ganised . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
8.2 Binder Icons . . . . . . . . . 74
8.3 Binder Controls . . . . . . 74
8.4 Using Collections . . . . . 76
8.5 Document Templates . . . 83
8.6 Custom Icons . . . . . . . . 87
9 Navigating and Organising 90
9.1 General Navigation . . . . 90
9.2 Go To Menu . . . . . . . . . 91
9.3 Hoisting the Binder . . . . 92
9.4 Controlling Binder Inte-
gration . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
9.5 Linking Documents To-
gether . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
9.6 Using Favourites . . . . . . 103
9.7 Layouts Panel . . . . . . . . 104
9.8 Full Screen Mode . . . . . . 106
9.9 Filtering Items in Views . 108
10 Setting Up Meta-Data 109
10.1 Meta-Data Types . . . . . . 109
10.2 Copying Meta-Data Be-
tween Projects . . . . . . . . 115
10.3 Project Keywords . . . . . 115
10.4 Project Properties . . . . . 116
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10.5 Setting Default Project
Formatting . . . . . . . . . . 118
11 Gathering Material 120
11.1 File Import . . . . . . . . . . 120
11.2 Scrivener Services . . . . . 127
11.3 Scratch Pad Panel . . . . . . 128
11.4 Print as PDF to Scrivener 129
12 Project Planning 130
12.1 The Corkboard . . . . . . . 130
12.2 The Outliner . . . . . . . . 137
12.3 Project Notes . . . . . . . . 141
13 Cloud Integration and Sharing 143
13.1 Simplenote . . . . . . . . . . 143
13.2 Synchronised Folders . . . 151
13.3 Which to Use? . . . . . . . 160
13.4 Index Card for iOS . . . . 161
13.5 Scrivener Everywhere . . . 166
III Writing 169
14 The Editor 172
14.1 Header Bar . . . . . . . . . . 172
14.2 Footer Bar . . . . . . . . . . 176
14.3 Viewing Media in the Ed-
itor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
14.4 Splitting the Editor . . . . 180
15 Writing and Editing 184
15.1 Rich Text Editing Philos-
ophy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
15.2 Editing Basics . . . . . . . . 185
15.3 Editing with Scrivener . . 187
15.4 Formatting Tools . . . . . . 196
15.5 Inline Images . . . . . . . . 204
15.6 Using Snapshots . . . . . . 210
15.7 Auto-Completion . . . . . 214
15.8 Text Bookmarks . . . . . . 216
15.9 Editing Multiple Docu-
ments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
16 Page View 221
16.1 Setting Page View Di-
mensions . . . . . . . . . . . 221
16.2 Tips for Accuracy . . . . . 221
17 Composition Mode 223
17.1 Using Background Image
and Textures . . . . . . . . . 224
17.2 The Control Strip . . . . . 224
17.3 Floating Inspector HUD . 226
17.4 Customising Appearance 226
17.5 Composition Mode with
Multiple Displays . . . . . 226
18 Annotations and Footnotes 228
18.1 Inline Notation . . . . . . . 230
18.2 Linked Notation . . . . . . 233
18.3 General Usage Tips for
Notation . . . . . . . . . . . 239
18.4 Text Colour and Highlights 242
18.5 Marking Revisions . . . . . 245
18.6 Text Markings and Multi-
Markdown . . . . . . . . . . 248
19 Inspector 250
19.1 Synopsis Card . . . . . . . . 250
19.2 General Meta-Data View . 251
19.3 Document Support Panes 251
19.4 Locking the Inspector . . . 258
19.5 Advanced Inspector Key-
board Usage . . . . . . . . . 258
20 Scriptwriting 260
20.1 Formatting a Script in
Scrivener . . . . . . . . . . . 260
20.2 Using Page View to Esti-
mate Page Counts . . . . . 263
20.3 Importing a Script from
Final Draft and Other
Programs . . . . . . . . . . . 264
20.4 Printing or Exporting a
Script . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
20.5 Working with Final
Draft 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
20.6 Working with Fountain . 268
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20.7 Creating Your Own
Script Formats . . . . . . . 270
20.8 Using Script Formatting
for Other Purposes . . . . 276
21 Writing Tools 277
21.1 Searching and Replacing . 277
21.2 QuickReference . . . . . . 287
21.3 Goals and Statistics
Tracking Tools . . . . . . . 290
21.4 Recording Audio and
Photo Notes . . . . . . . . . 297
21.5 The Name Generator . . . 298
21.6 Bibliography Management 300
21.7 Using Equations with
MathType . . . . . . . . . . 301
22 Using MultiMarkdown 302
22.1 What is Markdown? . . . . 302
22.2 What is MultiMarkdown? 303
22.3 Getting Started with MMD 304
22.4 MMD and Scrivener . . . . 305
22.5 Compiling . . . . . . . . . . 311
22.6 Importing MMD Files . . 316
22.7 MMD Meta-Data . . . . . . 317
22.8 Updating MultiMarkdown 317
22.9 Further Information . . . 317
IV Final Phases 318
23 Creating a Table of Contents 321
24 Compiling the Draft 325
24.1 Compile Summary . . . . 325
24.2 Built-in Presets . . . . . . . 328
24.3 Available Compile Formats 330
24.4 Compiling and Saving
Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
24.5 Managing Custom Presets 339
24.6 Expanded Compile Inter-
face . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341
24.7 Contents . . . . . . . . . . . 341
24.8 Print Settings . . . . . . . . 349
24.9 Separators . . . . . . . . . . 350
24.10 Cover . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352
24.11 Formatting . . . . . . . . . . 354
24.12 Title Adjustments . . . . . 369
24.13 Layout . . . . . . . . . . . . 370
24.14 Script Settings . . . . . . . . 375
24.15 Transformations . . . . . . 376
24.16 HTML Settings . . . . . . . 379
24.17 PDF Settings . . . . . . . . 380
24.18 Replacements . . . . . . . . 380
24.19 Statistics . . . . . . . . . . . 384
24.20 Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . 385
24.21 Footnotes/Comments . . 385
24.22 Page Settings . . . . . . . . . 391
24.23 Compatibility . . . . . . . . 396
24.24 Meta-Data . . . . . . . . . . 397
24.25 RTF Compatibility . . . . 400
24.26 Quick Font Override . . . 401
24.27 KindleGen . . . . . . . . . . 402
25 Exporting 404
25.1 Drag and Drop Between
Projects . . . . . . . . . . . . 404
25.2 Exporting Binder Files . . 404
25.3 Exporting to an Outliner
with OPML . . . . . . . . . 406
25.4 Exporting Meta-Data to a
Spreadsheet . . . . . . . . . 407
26 Printing 409
26.1 Document Printing . . . . 409
26.2 Printing Index Cards . . . 411
26.3 Printing the Draft . . . . . 414
V Advanced 416
27 MultiMarkdown Tips and Tricks 418
27.1 Functional Annotations
and Comments . . . . . . . 418
27.2 Multiple Footnote
Streams with MMD . . . . 419
28 Customising Keyboard Shortcuts 420
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VI Appendices 421
A Menus and Keyboard Shortcuts 422
A.1 Scrivener Menu . . . . . . . 422
A.2 File Menu . . . . . . . . . . 424
A.3 Edit Menu . . . . . . . . . . 429
A.4 View Menu . . . . . . . . . 431
A.5 Project Menu . . . . . . . . 442
A.6 Documents Menu . . . . . 444
A.7 Format Menu . . . . . . . . 451
A.8 Window Menu . . . . . . . 457
A.9 Help Menu . . . . . . . . . . 458
B Preferences 460
B.1 Preference Presets and
Themes . . . . . . . . . . . . 461
B.2 General . . . . . . . . . . . . 462
B.3 Appearance . . . . . . . . . 465
B.4 Corkboard . . . . . . . . . . 472
B.5 Compose . . . . . . . . . . . 474
B.6 Navigation . . . . . . . . . . 478
B.7 Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . 481
B.8 Formatting . . . . . . . . . . 484
B.9 Corrections . . . . . . . . . 487
B.10 Import and Export . . . . 489
B.11 Backup . . . . . . . . . . . . 493
C Placeholder Tags 495
D Tips and Tricks and Trouble 496
D.1 Getting Support . . . . . . 496
D.2 Bookmarks or Small Files 496
D.3 Using Scrivener in a Se-
cure Environment . . . . . 497
D.4 Hidden Preferences . . . . 498
D.5 Troubleshooting . . . . . . 502
D.6 Stripping out all images . . 504
E Project Bundle Format 505
E.1 The Files Folder . . . . . . 506
E.2 The Settings Folder . . . . 507
E.3 The Snapshots Folder . . . 507
F Legal 508
Acknowledgements
Many thanks to the following people for very kindly donating time or code to Scrivener:
Heinrich Gliesenhelp with inline image
scaling.
Jonathon Mahhelp with the bubble high-
lights around comments and footnotes.
Andreas MayerNSBezierPath and table
view extensions
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.
Andrew C. Stonesmart quotes code
2
.
Todd Ransom (author of Avenir) at
returnself.comltering and page number
printing code.
Jesse Grosjean (author of Mori and Write-
Room) at Hog Bay Softwareauto-saving
code.
Split view code based on OASplitView from
the excellent OmniGroup
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.
Andy Matuschakfor various resources and
great code snippets available on his website.
Matt Gemmellvarious code snippets (in-
cluding the colour contrast code, the use of
Quick Look for the le link view and the
corkboard options bubble window) from his
source code site
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.
Andy Matuschak
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and Matt Gemmell are
also responsible for the basis of the code for
Scriveners HUD panels in Tiger (code to be
found on their respective web sites).
Philip Dow (author of Journler
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)help with
the custom ruler code.
Wagner Truppel for help guring out how
to draw the diagonal status text in the cork-
board.
Martin Wierschin of Nisus, for various help
with the chicaneries of the text system and
RTF.
Peter Maurerhelp with the custom ani-
mated disclosure triangles (and kindly pro-
vided the images too).
Christian and Eric at Devon Technologies
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