shorn
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Post by shorn on Nov 2, 2005 15:59:28 GMT
Right now, Scrivenir lets you set a default text format in its preferences, but it is limited to specifying the font and the font size, the line spacing, and having paragraphs indented or not.
(I don't think there is anything else, but I don't have the application in front of me.)
I would find it very useful to be able to set the default Space Before and Space After paragraphs, as well.
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amberv
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Post by amberv on Nov 2, 2005 16:18:36 GMT
I second that. I am a no-indent--paragraph-spacing, kind of girl.
You can kind of set this up right now by using the Ruler and making a Scrivener default style. Then it is a simple matter of selecting that style with every new document (a pain). However, I had some problems using that method. It did not seem very sticky to me. Documents would snap back to the Scrivener default when I wasn't looking. I could not pin it down to a set of steps though, so I haven't filed a bug report on it, yet.
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Post by KB on Nov 2, 2005 18:53:59 GMT
Snapping back to default style is kind of an Apple bug. Especially if you've plonked any attachments (images etc) in your text, but not only then. I have some fixes for this in the pipeline. As for more options in the defaults... I'm not sure about this, we'll see. The preferences are already cluttered; having an option for everything would be a pain. I will consider it though.
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amberv
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Post by amberv on Nov 2, 2005 20:51:01 GMT
The only application that I have seen that uses Apple's built in formatting system, with a default, is the outliner TAO. In that application, he just has the full ruler system in the style preference box, and you make all the changes you want to the default ruler, which it then applies to all new outline items.
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Post by KB on Nov 2, 2005 20:56:36 GMT
That's exactly the idea I put on my "to do" list.  |
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