Scrivener

Scrivener for macOS

Scrivener for macOS Version 3.3.1 Literature & Latte 31 March, 2023 Scrivener 3.3 includes numerous refinements and improves overall stability. Hotfix 3.3.1 fixes a bug in version 3.3 that caused a crash when trying to access the colour popovers via the formatting bar. Refinements and Changes Compile - PDF

• Compile now supports generating PDF files in the PDF/X-1a format, which is required by certain self-publishing services (such as IngramSpark). This is turned on by default for the “Paperback” Compile formats, and can be turned on for custom formats in the “PDF Settings” area. (This replaces the option for PDF/X-3.) Compile - Ebooks
• Improved ebook formatting of superscript and subscript.
• Updated the Ebook Compile format to preserve indents in tables of content.
• Improved HTML cover page output for ebooks.
• The .separator CSS for ebooks is now included before styles CSS, so that styles can be used to override it. Compile - Docx
• Docx export is now more careful about avoiding duplicate image data where the same image with the same file name has been included multiple times. Compile - MultiMarkdown and Pandoc
• The Compile option to convert Markdown in text and notes to rich text no longer changes smart quotes.
• Updated Compile formats that target Pandoc to remove closing hashes from titles for improved compatibility.
• New projects created from templates containing no MultiMarkdown metadata in Compile no longer auto-populate the metadata with author and title.
• When compiling to MultiMarkdown and Pandoc formats, if a section layout’s title is set to use no hash marks, it now has no empty line added beneath it, allowing for more custom use of titles. (You can still create an empty line by adding a return character to the title suffix.) Compile - General
• Where annotations are denoted by square brackets in export formats, the brackets now skip whitespace. (Also applies to Export Files.)
• When Convert smart to dumb punctuation is selected in the Compile settings, en-dashes are now included in the conversion.
• The option to convert linked images to embedded images during Compile has been removed as this behaviour is now standard. Importing Files
• Updated the way custom Office importers and exporters are installed to abide by new Apple requirements.
• When importing Word DOCX files, the range to which comments are applied is now preserved.
• Comment chains in RTF and DOCX files are now imported into a single comment (previously only the first comment in a chain was imported and subsequent comments were ignored).
• Docx import now supports links in footnotes, endnotes and comments. UI Tweaks
• Composition mode now leaves space at the top of the screen for the “notch” on modern MacBooks.
• The binder now shows expansion tool tips for truncated items.
• When using one of the View ▸ Editor Layout split commands on a Quick Reference panel, the synopsis will now be shown by default rather than an empty split.
• The outliner option View ▸ Outliner Options ▸ Use Fixed Row Height now has the same availability as other outliner options.
• Improved conversion of colours when converting between inline and inspector comments using the Transformations menu. Miscellaneous
• Updated the “General Non-Fiction (LaTeX)” project template.
• Updated the links in the comic script project template.
• Removed limitation whereby backups could not be created from projects with tildes in their file names.
• Added support for “Translate” in the editor contextual menu.
• Auto-Fill ▸ Set Selected Text as Title is no longer limited to 100 characters.
• The Fade between modes option for composition mode has been removed because it no longer works on modern systems and can cause problems on older systems.
• Refined behaviour where Project Replace uppercases replacements when the found text is uppercase (necessary for scriptwriting). This behaviour is no longer triggered if the search term is all uppercase, making it possible to search for uppercase terms and replace them with mixed case.
• Writing direction options in the Format menu are no longer available from the text boxes in Preferences/Settings and Project Settings used to determine formatting, since writing direction is determined in the Editor: Options area of Preferences/Settings.
• Sparkle (used for automatic updates) updated to v2.4. Bugs Fixed Major (Stability)
• Fixed bug whereby certain combinations of paragraph styles and page breaks could throw an exception when exporting to RTF. (This was responsible for crashes in Sync with External Folder.)
• Fixed bug whereby refreshing the scratch pad while editing a note title would cause Scrivener to crash.
• Fixed bug where certain style names in Compile could trigger an exception when trying to edit a Compile format.
• Fixed bug whereby setting imported project templates as the default could cause the app to crash.
• Fixed a bug whereby importing Word .docx files containing small caps could cause a crash.
• Fixed bug whereby certain documents could cause a crash when exporting to RTF.
• Fixed bug whereby Project Replace using RegEx could throw an exception.
• Fixed a bug that could throw an exception when converting text to the default formatting if a selection writing direction had been applied to the default formatting. Minor (Usability)
• Fixed bug whereby the snapshot comparison feature failed to work on macOS Ventura.
• Fixed a bug whereby a quote after a hyphen or dash that should be closed would be open.
• Fixed bug whereby some misspellings were not being underlined.
• Fixed ampersand XML error in Hindi name lists.
• Fixed bug whereby the System Text Preferences button of the Settings window in Ventura did not work.
• Fixed bug where [[document links]] were not recognised in the notes area of composition mode.
• Fixed bug whereby “Save PDF to Scrivener” in print dialogues did not work.
• Fixed bug whereby printed page count statistics would calculate the count only for a single document rather than for all selected documents in Statistics.
• Fixed Instagram links in app.
• Fixed bug whereby an unsupported file type would appear blank the second time it was opened in a Quick Reference window.
• Fixed issue with “Share” not working in the text editor contextual menu.
• Fixed bug whereby Documents ▸ Auto-Fill ▸ Set Synopsis From Main Text did not work as expected if a card in the corkboard or a row in the outline was being edited.
• Fixed issue whereby if a trackpad was set to Tap to click in system settings, tapping an arrow next to a button in the toolbar would not bring up the menu as expected but instead perform the button action.
• Fixed issue with composition mode and bookmark editor links not opening in the expected area.
• Fixed bug where projects opened from external links would not open in the App Store version if Scrivener wasn’t already open.
• Fixed bug whereby undo did not work as expected for text custom meta-data.
• Fixed bug whereby sorting collections into binder order wouldn’t work for collections shown in the outliner or corkboard.
• Fixed bug whereby using “Replace All” in the Find panel with “Selected Text” set as the scope and multiple ranges of text selected would only replace text in the first selection.
• Fixed issue with links in inspector and bookmarks areas not working in some circumstances. Import
• Fixed bug whereby strikethrough would be ignored when importing Word documents created by Apple Pages.
• Fixed bug whereby character styles were not included in imported RTF files even where they matched style names in the project.
• Fixed bug whereby bold and italics could be lost in certain circumstances when importing DOCX files. Export and Compile
• Fixed bug whereby header and footer margin Compile settings did not work with DOCX.
• Fixed a bug with escaped italics in rich text to Markdown conversion (which internally affects ebooks too).
• Fixed bug whereby dark highlights in styles wouldn’t be included in ePub export.
• Fixed bug whereby the <$pagecount> in PDF and Print compiled documents could decrement when following sections that took up the entirety of a single page.
• Fixed bug whereby the prefix and suffix for plain text unstyled italics in Compile could be inserted twice in footnotes.
• Fixed bug whereby bold and italics inside tables could result in invalid HTML in ebooks.
• Fixed bug whereby empty lines inside tables could result in invalid HTML in ebooks.
• Fixed issue whereby asterisks and certain other problems could cause problems in titles when used in an ebook table of contents. (The underlying cause - a problem with escaping characters inside links when converting to Markdown, which is used for ebook conversion - has likewise been fixed.)
• Fixed bug whereby, when exporting a folder of plain text files, if you added an extension to the folder name when exporting, all plain text files would use that extension.
• Fixed issue whereby run-in titles would lose paragraph style when exporting to ebook formats.
• Fixed bug whereby the text of comments exported to Word DOCX format could be duplicated in the text.
• Fixed minor issue whereby the headings of sections containing nothing but footnotes would not be included in compiled documents. (Sections should not contain nothing but footnotes, however.)
• Fixed issue whereby line breaks were not converted to spaces in linked document title prefixes during Compile.
• Fixed issue with section layout prefixes and suffixes not indenting properly in Compile when the Add indent per outline level was used in the Transformations options.
• Fixed bug whereby document links using <$hn> tags would result in the wrong number being used upon compile.
• Fixed bug whereby images in text linked to PDF images in the project would not compile as expected to certain formats (such as RTF).
• Fixed bug whereby linked images exported as part of RTFD may not show up in other apps because of sandboxing.
• Fixed bug whereby footnote markers always came out using a Helvetica font in exported RTF files.
• Fixed bug whereby hierarchical numbering may not work properly when mixing <$hn_level> with another numbering type.
• Fixed bug whereby the Resolution for PDF images converted to PNG Preference wasn’t being used for linked images.
• Fixed bug whereby MultiMarkdown images may not include size info for vector images after an RTF export. UI
• Fixed a bug whereby alternating row colours in the outliner could be offset from the content.
• Fixed bug whereby certain external file bookmarks could corrupt the layout of the inspector “Bookmarks” header area.
• Fixed help text in custom meta-data date UI.
• Fixed bug whereby Export Files options could be clipped for some formats.
• Fixed bug whereby the notes area in composition mode may not update properly after changing the system appearance.
• Fixed issue whereby composition mode was available from project settings and certain other areas where it made no sense.

Scrivener for macOS

Scrivener for macOS Version 3.3 Literature & Latte 30 March, 2023 Scrivener 3.3 includes numerous refinements and improves overall stability. Refinements and Changes Compile - PDF

• Compile now supports generating PDF files in the PDF/X-1a format, which is required by certain self-publishing services (such as IngramSpark). This is turned on by default for the “Paperback” Compile formats, and can be turned on for custom formats in the “PDF Settings” area. (This replaces the option for PDF/X-3.) Compile - Ebooks
• Improved ebook formatting of superscript and subscript.
• Updated the Ebook Compile format to preserve indents in tables of content.
• Improved HTML cover page output for ebooks.
• The .separator CSS for ebooks is now included before styles CSS, so that styles can be used to override it. Compile - Docx
• Docx export is now more careful about avoiding duplicate image data where the same image with the same file name has been included multiple times. Compile - MultiMarkdown and Pandoc
• The Compile option to convert Markdown in text and notes to rich text no longer changes smart quotes.
• Updated Compile formats that target Pandoc to remove closing hashes from titles for improved compatibility.
• New projects created from templates containing no MultiMarkdown metadata in Compile no longer auto-populate the metadata with author and title.
• When compiling to MultiMarkdown and Pandoc formats, if a section layout’s title is set to use no hash marks, it now has no empty line added beneath it, allowing for more custom use of titles. (You can still create an empty line by adding a return character to the title suffix.) Compile - General
• Where annotations are denoted by square brackets in export formats, the brackets now skip whitespace. (Also applies to Export Files.)
• When Convert smart to dumb punctuation is selected in the Compile settings, en-dashes are now included in the conversion.
• The option to convert linked images to embedded images during Compile has been removed as this behaviour is now standard. Importing Files
• Updated the way custom Office importers and exporters are installed to abide by new Apple requirements.
• When importing Word DOCX files, the range to which comments are applied is now preserved.
• Comment chains in RTF and DOCX files are now imported into a single comment (previously only the first comment in a chain was imported and subsequent comments were ignored).
• Docx import now supports links in footnotes, endnotes and comments. UI Tweaks
• Composition mode now leaves space at the top of the screen for the “notch” on modern MacBooks.
• The binder now shows expansion tool tips for truncated items.
• When using one of the View ▸ Editor Layout split commands on a Quick Reference panel, the synopsis will now be shown by default rather than an empty split.
• The outliner option View ▸ Outliner Options ▸ Use Fixed Row Height now has the same availability as other outliner options.
• Improved conversion of colours when converting between inline and inspector comments using the Transformations menu. Miscellaneous
• Updated the “General Non-Fiction (LaTeX)” project template.
• Updated the links in the comic script project template.
• Removed limitation whereby backups could not be created from projects with tildes in their file names.
• Added support for “Translate” in the editor contextual menu.
• Auto-Fill ▸ Set Selected Text as Title is no longer limited to 100 characters.
• The Fade between modes option for composition mode has been removed because it no longer works on modern systems and can cause problems on older systems.
• Refined behaviour where Project Replace uppercases replacements when the found text is uppercase (necessary for scriptwriting). This behaviour is no longer triggered if the search term is all uppercase, making it possible to search for uppercase terms and replace them with mixed case.
• Writing direction options in the Format menu are no longer available from the text boxes in Preferences/Settings and Project Settings used to determine formatting, since writing direction is determined in the Editor: Options area of Preferences/Settings.
• Sparkle (used for automatic updates) updated to v2.4. Bugs Fixed Major (Stability)
• Fixed bug whereby certain combinations of paragraph styles and page breaks could throw an exception when exporting to RTF. (This was responsible for crashes in Sync with External Folder.)
• Fixed bug whereby refreshing the scratch pad while editing a note title would cause Scrivener to crash.
• Fixed bug where certain style names in Compile could trigger an exception when trying to edit a Compile format.
• Fixed bug whereby setting imported project templates as the default could cause the app to crash.
• Fixed a bug whereby importing Word .docx files containing small caps could cause a crash.
• Fixed bug whereby certain documents could cause a crash when exporting to RTF.
• Fixed bug whereby Project Replace using RegEx could throw an exception.
• Fixed a bug that could throw an exception when converting text to the default formatting if a selection writing direction had been applied to the default formatting. Minor (Usability)
• Fixed bug whereby the snapshot comparison feature failed to work on macOS Ventura.
• Fixed a bug whereby a quote after a hyphen or dash that should be closed would be open.
• Fixed bug whereby some misspellings were not being underlined.
• Fixed ampersand XML error in Hindi name lists.
• Fixed bug whereby the System Text Preferences button of the Settings window in Ventura did not work.
• Fixed bug where [[document links]] were not recognised in the notes area of composition mode.
• Fixed bug whereby “Save PDF to Scrivener” in print dialogues did not work.
• Fixed bug whereby printed page count statistics would calculate the count only for a single document rather than for all selected documents in Statistics.
• Fixed Instagram links in app.
• Fixed bug whereby an unsupported file type would appear blank the second time it was opened in a Quick Reference window.
• Fixed issue with “Share” not working in the text editor contextual menu.
• Fixed bug whereby Documents ▸ Auto-Fill ▸ Set Synopsis From Main Text did not work as expected if a card in the corkboard or a row in the outline was being edited.
• Fixed issue whereby if a trackpad was set to Tap to click in system settings, tapping an arrow next to a button in the toolbar would not bring up the menu as expected but instead perform the button action.
• Fixed issue with composition mode and bookmark editor links not opening in the expected area.
• Fixed bug where projects opened from external links would not open in the App Store version if Scrivener wasn’t already open.
• Fixed bug whereby undo did not work as expected for text custom meta-data.
• Fixed bug whereby sorting collections into binder order wouldn’t work for collections shown in the outliner or corkboard.
• Fixed bug whereby using “Replace All” in the Find panel with “Selected Text” set as the scope and multiple ranges of text selected would only replace text in the first selection.
• Fixed issue with links in inspector and bookmarks areas not working in some circumstances. Import
• Fixed bug whereby strikethrough would be ignored when importing Word documents created by Apple Pages.
• Fixed bug whereby character styles were not included in imported RTF files even where they matched style names in the project.
• Fixed bug whereby bold and italics could be lost in certain circumstances when importing DOCX files. Export and Compile
• Fixed bug whereby header and footer margin Compile settings did not work with DOCX.
• Fixed a bug with escaped italics in rich text to Markdown conversion (which internally affects ebooks too).
• Fixed bug whereby dark highlights in styles wouldn’t be included in ePub export.
• Fixed bug whereby the <$pagecount> in PDF and Print compiled documents could decrement when following sections that took up the entirety of a single page.
• Fixed bug whereby the prefix and suffix for plain text unstyled italics in Compile could be inserted twice in footnotes.
• Fixed bug whereby bold and italics inside tables could result in invalid HTML in ebooks.
• Fixed bug whereby empty lines inside tables could result in invalid HTML in ebooks.
• Fixed issue whereby asterisks and certain other problems could cause problems in titles when used in an ebook table of contents. (The underlying cause - a problem with escaping characters inside links when converting to Markdown, which is used for ebook conversion - has likewise been fixed.)
• Fixed bug whereby, when exporting a folder of plain text files, if you added an extension to the folder name when exporting, all plain text files would use that extension.
• Fixed issue whereby run-in titles would lose paragraph style when exporting to ebook formats.
• Fixed bug whereby the text of comments exported to Word DOCX format could be duplicated in the text.
• Fixed minor issue whereby the headings of sections containing nothing but footnotes would not be included in compiled documents. (Sections should not contain nothing but footnotes, however.)
• Fixed issue whereby line breaks were not converted to spaces in linked document title prefixes during Compile.
• Fixed issue with section layout prefixes and suffixes not indenting properly in Compile when the Add indent per outline level was used in the Transformations options.
• Fixed bug whereby document links using <$hn> tags would result in the wrong number being used upon compile.
• Fixed bug whereby images in text linked to PDF images in the project would not compile as expected to certain formats (such as RTF).
• Fixed bug whereby linked images exported as part of RTFD may not show up in other apps because of sandboxing.
• Fixed bug whereby footnote markers always came out using a Helvetica font in exported RTF files.
• Fixed bug whereby hierarchical numbering may not work properly when mixing <$hn_level> with another numbering type.
• Fixed bug whereby the Resolution for PDF images converted to PNG Preference wasn’t being used for linked images.
• Fixed bug whereby MultiMarkdown images may not include size info for vector images after an RTF export. UI
• Fixed a bug whereby alternating row colours in the outliner could be offset from the content.
• Fixed bug whereby certain external file bookmarks could corrupt the layout of the inspector “Bookmarks” header area.
• Fixed help text in custom meta-data date UI.
• Fixed bug whereby Export Files options could be clipped for some formats.
• Fixed bug whereby the notes area in composition mode may not update properly after changing the system appearance.
• Fixed issue whereby composition mode was available from project settings and certain other areas where it made no sense.

Scrivener 3.2.3 Change List Ready for macOS 12 Monterey

• Tested and updated for macOS 12 Monterey. Update NaNoWriMo Word Count
• A new “Update NaNoWriMo Word Count” feature has been added to the Project menu for those taking part in National Novel Writing Month. This feature is available when using the special NaNoWriMo project template available from our site, or for any project with a target of 50,000 words and a deadline of 30th November. The feature can be added to any project with any target or deadline using these instructions. UI Tweaks
• When the system tint is set to grey, the focus indicators in Scrivener’s header bars are now blue, rather than using the system tint colour, which, when grey, is too easily confused with the regular header background colour and locked-in-place.
• "Insert MathType Equation" is now hidden on 64-bit machines (and if MathType is not installed).
• The “selection affects other editor” button now has its background highlighted when on, to make its state clearer. Miscellaneous Bug Fixes
• Fixed .docx import bug whereby lists based on styles could throw an exception and would not import properly.
• Fixed bug whereby toolbar search field didn’t update to reflect search collection settings.
• Fixed bug whereby footnote markers may use bold or italics in Word export if the footnote itself started with bold or italics.
• Fixed bug whereby the “Section headers use binder indenting levels” Fountain option in Compile did nothing.
• Fixed an issue whereby part titles may not appear correctly in Vellum when using the Vellum .docx Compile format.
• Fixed bug whereby controls were squashed in Page Layout.
• Fixed position of styles and font buttons in the format bar for compact layout.
• Fixed bug whereby Preferences toolbar was too short.
• Preferences for disabling insertion point blinking are no longer available on macOS 11 and above. macOS 11 and above do not allow insertion point blinking to be disabled.

Scrivener 3.2.2 Change List

• Fixed bug that could cause a crash or hang when typing at certain text scales.
• Fixed bug whereby “Search in Project” would not work on Big Sur if the search field was in the toolbar.
• Fixed bug whereby links in comments would result in an invalid .docx file.
• Worked around a nasty Apple bug that can cause crashes when deleting or moving text in page view in certain circumstances.
• Fixed bug whereby headers and footers could come out upside down for PDF and print-outs on systems earlier than 10.13.
• Fixed bug whereby bulleted lists that skipped levels could result in an invalid .docx file.
• Worked around an Apple bug whereby an exception would be thrown if you clicked one of the “Line height” options in the spacing panel (e.g. “At least” or “At most”).
• Improved the speed of exporting RTF for text containing images.
• Fixed bug whereby adjacent comments could create problems when exporting to RTF.
• Fixed a bug whereby line breaks (as opposed to paragraph breaks) could result in invalid HTML in epub files.
• Fixed bug whereby styles weren’t maintained when importing RTF files, even when the project had styles with matching names.

Scrivener 3.2.1 Change List

• Fixed bug that could cause Compile to throw an exception and so not appear.
• Fixed spacing issues in Preferences lists.
• Fixed bug whereby toolbar search field did not show options menu.
• Fixed minor UI issue in Styles pane of Compile format editor.
• Fixed bug whereby Scrivener could crash at any point after a project was closed in which dragging had occurred.
• Added a (hopefully) better workaround for an old bug in TextKit whereby the edited line can get scrolled to the centre at certain text scales.
• Fixed a bug whereby the “Check for Updates” preference options were missing.
• Fixed bug whereby tables cells in .docx export could be duplicated if the text inside them used varied paragraph formatting.
• Fixed bug in .docx export whereby the first paragraph after a page break would lose association with its assigned style.
• Fixed bug whereby styles may be lost in RTF export.
• Fixed a bug whereby the divider above the “Binder” tab in collections wouldn’t be drawn if the binder was set to use a dark background on macOS 10.15 and below.

Scrivener 3.2 Change List Scrivener 3.2 provides compatibility for both macOS 11 Big Sur and Apple Silicon, along with more than a hundred bug fixes and tweaks. Refinements and Changes Big Sur Refinements

• UI and icons updated to match the new look of macOS 11 Big Sur.
• Scrivener’s default Preferences have been updated so that the colours work well on Big Sur. (If you’re using custom colours, you will need to reset the Preferences to the Defaults to see the updated Big Sur theme.) Apple Silicon Support
• Scrivener is now a Universal app, running natively on both Silicon and Intel machines. Compile - Ebooks
• Scrivener’s Compile sheet no longer recommends installing kindlegen for generating mobi files, but Kindle Previewer instead.
• You can now enable a “Version” popover for epub files by setting “SCRShowAppleBooksVersionOption” to “true” in the defaults via the Terminal. This is an advanced option only for use by those trying to update books that already have version numbers associated with them. It is hidden by default because it should not normally be used. (To enable, quit Scrivener. Then, in Terminal.app, type “defaults write com.literatureandlatte.scrivener3 SCRShowAppleBooksVersionOption -bool YES” and hit return. Then restart Scrivener.)
• Ebook export no longer unnecessarily includes elements where the formatting is already determined by the para+char style (previously extra span formatting was unnecessarily output for para+char styles). Compile - Pandoc
• Pandoc > .docx now supports table of contents options in Compile.
• Pandoc export now includes the -s flag to create standalone files rather than fragments.
• Pandoc export now uses “shift-header-level-by” instead of the deprecated “base-header-level”.
• When working with newer versions of Pandoc, Scrivener now correctly exports to ePub 2 format when the option is selected.
• “-f markdown+smart” is no longer passed in as an argument for Pandoc formats, since smart typography is now used in Pandoc by default. Compile - Other
• Removed “Use default script elements” from FDX Compile options, as it was of limited use.
• Links are now removed from <$linkID> replacements. DOCX Converter and Deprecated Native ODT and DOC Support
• Scrivener is no longer bundled with a built-in Java Runtime Environment, which was previously used for improved conversion when importing and exporting .docx, .doc and .odt formats. Scrivener now has its own native .docx importer/exporter, so there is no need to include Java (which added 100MB to Scrivener’s file size). This does mean, however, that the default .odt and .doc converters are now of a lower quality. Users who rely on these formats and cannot use .docx as an alternative can install Java themselves; if Java is installed, Scrivener will use the same converters it used previously for these formats. (You can also set .docx to use the Java converters via the Preferences should you ever need to.) Allowing users to install Java themselves also improves security. Import/Export
• Updated Fountain import/export to modern Fountain syntax - two spaces at the end of a line no longer forces an Action element (Action elements are forced only by prefixing a line with an exclamation mark).
• Added a new drag format that other developers can use to drag and drop items between Scrivener and other apps. (We haven’t documented this yet, so please get in touch if you’re a developer interested in using it.)
• Placeholder synopses are no longer included in drags to Scapple.
• Added option to Import preferences to have “text” from OPML imported as the main text.
• To avoid data loss, Scrivener now forbids the overwriting of open projects when using Export > as Scrivener 2 Project.
• MultiMarkdown updated to 6.5.3. Contacts Dependency Removed
• Scrivener no longer uses Contacts or AddressBook to fill out address information in manuscripts - this information can now be added to “Author Information” in the General pane of the Preferences, or can be entered into the manuscript manually. Scratchpad
• The scratchpad no longer actively monitors the external scratchpad folder for changes, which was resulting in esoteric crashes for some users (possibly related to storing Scratchpad content in iCloud). Instead, the scratchpad now refreshes its content whenever the window is brought to the front, and you can force it to refresh its content using a new “reload” button. UI
• Header bars now use the system tint colour to indicate focussed status, and turn dark grey (instead of pink) to indicate locked status (a lock icon is also displayed).
• Added an option on Big Sur to use a monochrome toolbar (in Appearance preferences; also available by Ctrl-clicking on the toolbar.)
• Binder Selection > Affects Both will now scroll to item selected on left in scrivenings on right when “Open Non-Group Items on Right” is selected, matching the behaviour for other Binder Selection > Affects options.
• Reveal in Other Editor in the header contextual menu now operates on the currently selected item in the editor, not necessarily the container document.
• Moved “Show elements list on double return in script mode” preference from Corrections to Behaviors > Return Key.
• Changed default composition mode selection colour to that set in the system preferences.
• Added links to our Instagram page to the Keep Up to Date and NaNo trial panels.
• Multiline titles now show a pilcrow to represent newlines in the Quick Search toolbar area.
• External bookmarks can now be opened in copyholders via the contextual menu.
• External bookmarks loaded into copyholders are now restored on project open. Editing
• Clicks in the margins of the main editor now move the caret even when not centring the text area.
• Improved Apple’s “Select Word” action so that it no longer selects spaces when invoking it after navigating through the text using Option+arrows. Bugs Fixed Major (Stability)
• Fixed bug whereby a file path link in the editor could throw an exception if you tried to edit if the file linked to did not exist.
• Fixed bug whereby an exception could get thrown in some circumstances when adding a new document and a collection was open in an editor.
• Fixed bug whereby certain replacements could throw an exception.
• Fixed bug whereby creating a new scratchpad note while another note title was being edited would throw an exception. Minor (Usability)
• Fixed bug whereby deleting a comment and then returning immediately to the editor could cause new typing to take on a link.
• Worked around an issue that could cause internal tags (<Scr_H::..>) to appear when heading levels were applied in the iOS version and synced to macOS.
• Disabled non-image file drags in the Scratchpad (other file types cause problems).
• Fixed bug whereby “Italicize after delimiter” in the scriptwriting settings did not work on macOS 10.15.
• Fixed bug whereby paragraph style information could be lost when exporting to RTF for paragraphs following a paragraph whose direct formatting had been changed.
• Fixed a bug whereby PDF files with an uppercase file extension would be imported as images rather than PDFs when using “Import Research Files as Aliases”.
• Fixed a bug whereby, when trying to open a project already open somewhere else, “Make a Copy” would not work in the sandbox version if the necessary permissions were not already set up in Authorize Folder Access. “Make a Copy” now asks the user to choose a location to save the copy.
• Worked around a bug whereby deleting a newline between two paragraphs and then undoing would leave the second paragraph still using the formatting of the first.
• Fixed bug whereby the “Capitalize ‘I’” preference didn’t depend on the “Fix capitalisation” preference, when in fact it should only be available when the latter is turned on as it is not designed to work independently.
• Fixed bug whereby FDX import would use a standard red for revisions instead of the revision colours set in Preferences.
• Fixed bug whereby selecting “No Style” at the start of a new, empty paragraph would do nothing.
• Paste Plain Text as Screenplay now tries to determine whether the pasted text should use Fountain conversion or not, and chooses between converting using Fountain syntax or trying to work out script element based on spaces.
• Worked around an Apple bug whereby dragging a tab out of the ruler could cause the text to scroll.
• Increase/decrease indents now works properly with lists, adjust the lists rather than just the indents.
• Fixed Console warning that could occur on Big Sur while saving Quick Look preview.
• The scratchpad folder is no longer used if it has been moved to the Trash.
• Fixed bug whereby linked footnotes could mess up tables in Copy as Markdown.
• Fixed issue where dragging comments to another place in the text could in some rare circumstances result in a duplicated comment (instead of moving it).
• Fixed bug whereby annotations could end up with different colours for newlines when syncing with an external folder using plain text. Compile
• Fixed minor issue whereby styles imported using the “enhanced” converters could lose some capitalisation.
• Fixed bug whereby character styles were not exported correctly to .docx format when using Scrivener’s own (non-”enhanced”) converters.
• Fixed issue whereby overriding the Compile font would also override custom separator fonts.
• Fixed bug whereby automatically-generated CSS names could start with a numeral.
• PDF and print header and footer drawing updated to avoid using -lockFocus (a method deprecated on macOS).
• Fixed bug whereby certain footnote options (such as “split across pages”) would not save their changes in Compile formats.
• Fixed bug whereby invalid comment links were being included in PDFs.
• Fixed bug whereby comment text could be counted twice when adding statistics during Compile (e.g. with the <$wc> tag).
• Fixed bug whereby a paragraph using the “first-letter” class in ebook export could take on the paragraph style of the previous paragraph.
• Fixed bug whereby invalid HTML could be generated for ebooks with sections that started using bold and italic with no title.
• Fixed bug whereby monospace at the start of a paragraph could cause monospace to be used throughout the paragraph in epub export.
• Fixed bug whereby page breaks between tables could be swallowed during Compile so that tables ended up on the same page.
• “Stitch together adjacent tables” no longer stitches together tables across page breaks.
• Fixed bug whereby if a cover page was added to a PDF in Compile, then endnote links would not work.
• Fixed a bug whereby mailto: links could be obfuscated in ebook export (this required providing an amended build of MultiMarkdown 5, which is used for ebook export).
• For clarity, updated “Footnotes become endnotes” message in Compile when “flatten” is turned on for RTF compatibility.
• Improved ebook export to avoid exporting duplicate images more than once.
• Improved plain text transformations in Compile so that lines did not get truncated early because the algorithm was not ignoring spaces.
• Fixed bug whereby text colours would not be added during Fountain import.
• Fixed bug whereby pasting a ToC using page width could still result in the ToC not fitting on the page when exported.
• Fixed a bug whereby invalid HTML could be generated in ebook export when ampersands were used and followed soon after by a semicolon (e.g. “A&E;”).
• Fixed bug whereby raw markup paragraph blocks in HTML export could still have tags placed around them.
• Fixed bug whereby custom contents in ebooks would lose all their links if “Remove all hyperlinks” was selected.
• Fixed APA Compile format so that the level 3, 4 and 5 sections no longer use Keep with Next in the headers, which can cause unexpected breaks across pages given that these are run-on headers.

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Scrivener 3.1.5 Change List Changes

• Updated the built-in Courier Prime font to a version that supports Cyrillic variants.
• Improved the position of headers and footers in the page layout preview in Compile. Fixes
• Worked around a Catalina issue whereby using the navigation options to scroll to the top of documents in scrivenings mode would not take into account ruler visibility.
• Fixed a bug in the MAS version whereby the built-in (non-enhanced) .docx converter would not work correctly under sandboxing.
• Fixed a bug whereby the Compiled character count would be zero if the option to exclude whitespace from the count was ticked.
• Fixed an edge-case situation whereby overtyping text that has just had a comment removed could restore the comment.
• Fixed a bug whereby the Project Settings backup folder would not be used in the Mac App Store version.
• Fixed a bug whereby it was not possible to toggle character styles.
• Fixed bugs in the “Ebook” Compile format.
• Fixed a bug whereby adding a new style in Compile while the title of a newly-added style was still being edited could cause the wrong style to be selected.
• Fixed a bug whereby bold and italics did not work for non-English languages.

Scrivener 3.1.4 Change List Updated for macOS 10.15 Catalina compatibility. Changes

• Clicking the “X” button on a comment to remove it now scrolls to the location in the text where the comment was located.
• “Update Document Links to Use Target Titles” in Edit > Text Tidying now removes links to documents that no longer exist.
• Find by Formatting can now search in the URLs of links.
• Removed script summary and note font options from Compile for FDX since Final Draft now ignores these settings.
• Updated the abbreviated title placeholder in Compile metadata to show “Use Title”, as a more accurate indicator if the field’s function.
• When “Base page view size on” is set to “Compile settings”, the page size now ignores the Compile settings and uses the File > Page Setup settings for Compile formats that do not support page settings.
• Updated a number of Compile formats.
• Page break characters are now stripped out of the text when compiling to ebook or HTML formats, to avoid HTML errors. Fixes
• Fixed bug with PDF cover images that could cause them to be cropped incorrectly.
• Worked around an Apple issue whereby file links dragged in would use an arcane private Apple ID scheme rather than the file path.
• Fixed bug whereby pressing up/down buttons on corkboard arranged by label when there was no selection would throw an exception.
• Fixed bug that could cause a crash with unfound bookmarks.
• Fixed bug whereby shadow artefacts could be left in page layout view until resized when switching the “Base page view size on” preference.
• Fixed bug whereby Opt-clicking on the “open collection” arrow in the collections header, which loads all documents set to “Include in Compile” into the editor, would erroneously include a representation of the collection itself in the corkboard or outliner.
• Fixed a bug whereby certain toolbar items could have text drawn over them on Catalina.
• Worked around an OS bug whereby the bold and italic menu items would not work on Catalina.
• Worked around an OS bug whereby the UI elements of the main window may not resize correctly on Catalina.
• Fixed an issue whereby epubcheck would report a warning for sections with no explicit title in Scrivener.
• Fixed a bug whereby an exception could be thrown when entering composition mode, causing buttons in the control strip to go missing, if the screen size had changed since first launching composition mode.
• Fixed bug whereby newly-created styles would include Inspector comments until the project was closed and reopened.

Scrivener 3.1.3 Change List Refinements and Changes Licensing and Activation

• Scrivener’s licensing and activation system has been updated to work with our new e-commerce provider, Paddle. Matching Texts Feature
• Added a new “Matching Texts” feature to the Bookmarks area of the Inspector in the main window. This lists all documents that share a paragraph or sentence with the current document. Double-clicking a result selects matching text in the main editor. Corkboard Threaded View
• Added a new corkboard preference, “Compress threads when arranged by label”. This is turned on by default, and interleaves cards on the board so that they take up less space when “Arrange by Label” is turned on. Import
• The native .docx importer now correctly reads text inserted in Word during Track Changes.
• The native .docx importer now decreases the font size of superscript text. Styles
• Made improvements to the way styles are removed. Character styles can now be removed more easily when a paragraph style is present, and direct character formatting is no longer removed when resetting to “No Style”. Searching
• Quick Search now treats curly and straight apostrophes and quotes as though they are the same.
• Asterisks are no longer highlighted in the editor when using an asterisk project search to find any match.
• Optimised and increased speed of “Find Duplicates”.
• When finding duplicates, the alternating row colours used in the search colours alternate between duplicate blocks rather than between each row. MultiMarkdown
• Copy as Markdown now converts footnotes and removes comments.
• Other minor improvements to Copy as Markdown.
• Enclosing annotation markers are now escaped when exporting MMD files.
• “Save source files” for the MultiMarkdown format in Compile is now dependent on the “Post-process” setting rather than the “Use Pandoc syntax” setting. Compile
• Improvements made to “Fix script elements that flow across page breaks”.
• If Kindle Previewer is installed, Scrivener now uses kindlegen from inside that to generate Kindle files, rather than requiring a separate kindlegen installation. (Kindle Previewer contains a newer, 64-bit version of kindlegen which is not currently available on Amazon’s website as a separate download.)
• Removed the “At marker” option from plain text and RTFD Compile options, since it does nothing - the marker always overrides the options selected there if it exists.
• Improved the dual dialogue option for print and PDF to work with formats other than only Screenplay, such as US Stage Play format. Miscellaneous
• The total word count is now given in parentheses after the selection word count in the footer bar (as long as only one count type is shown and not both words and characters).
• The text fields in the image resizing panel now have a hard minimum of 25 points (previously the minimum may be higher, and different from what could be achieved with the sliders).
• It is now possible to copy and paste label, status and auto-complete items between the Project Settings of different projects.
• Added extra code to ensure the session count resets when a project is opened if the reset time passed while the project was closed.
• Added “Back Up All Projects Now” as an alternate to “Back Up Now” in the “Back Up” menu (hold down Option to turn “Back Up Now” into “Back Up All Projects Now”.
• Opt-dragging into collections now acts consistently, always including subdocuments of folders, even when dragging into the cork board or outliner (which previously worked differently).

Bugs Fixed Major (Stability)

• Fixed bug whereby Scrivener could crash if a Revision Mode was invoked while Linguistic Focus was open.
• Fixed bug that could cause a crash or hang when importing certain .docx files using either the Aspose or native importers.
• Fixed bug that could cause an exception to be thrown by Compile when styles were set both to delete text and add prefixes or suffixes.
• Fixed bug whereby keywords could lose their assignments or disappear if moved around in the Keywords panel using the Move commands or keyboard shortcuts. Minor (Usability)
• Worked around bug in macOS 10.14.4 that causes web archives not to load.
• Fixed bug whereby typing attributes could be reset after the auto-title of a document updated when typing in scrivenings mode with only a single document loaded.
• Worked around an issue whereby custom metadata dates could appear incorrect if edited in a third-party app that did not write the microseconds into the file format as expected.
• Fixed a bug in the native .docx importer whereby it could omit whitespace.
• Fixed bug whereby copying keyword titles from Inspector did not work when pasting them into a text editor.
• Fixed bug whereby taking group snapshots would play the shutter sound even when the option was turned off in the Preferences.
• Fixed bug whereby custom .docx converter would create invalid documents if they contained images with any spaces inside their file names.
• Fixed a bug whereby spelling suggestions may not be shown for very long texts.
• Fixed a bug whereby moving a folder and a subdocument in a collection on the corkboard or outliner would only move the folder around, not its subdocument. Compile
• Fixed a bug whereby Compile replacements could affect comments in the project when compiling for print or PDF.
• Fixed bug whereby superscript or subscript combined with italics or bold could result in errors in ePub output.
• Fixed bug whereby rich text to MMD conversion would not place an empty line above a bulleted list if there was only a single non-bulleted line separating two lists.
• Fixed bug whereby MultiMarkdown headings could come out wrong for adjacent paragraphs using the same header level.
• Fixed bug whereby scripts without parenthetical elements defined could have “CONT’D” character names inserted unnecessarily when compiling for PDF or print.
• Fixed bug whereby the first line indent of the second paragraph could be removed during Compile when set to remove first line indents if the first paragraph used a style.
• Fixed bug whereby adding a multi-line title to Compile metadata could cause other text fields in the metadata interface to be clipped.
• Fixed bug whereby “Lowercase” option in Compile Title Options had no effect. UI
• Fixed bug whereby updates to label colours may not be reflected in the search results or collections when showing label colours.
• Fixed bug whereby the rubber band area in the binder would be grey (again).
• Fixed bugs in the editor footer statistics popover pane pertaining to sentence and character counts.
• Fixed bug whereby the focus mode menu options in the toolbar would be disabled in full screen mode.
• Fixed the “Inside” and “Outside” labels for facing pages in Compile, which were previously inverted.
• Fixed bug whereby “Keywords” was wrongly disabled for non-text documents in Navigate > Inspect.