# Scrivener 3.1 — Version 3.1

- Product: Scrivener (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/scrivener)
- Vendor: Literature & Latte
- Date: 2018-11-08
- Version: 3.1
- Original notes: https://www.literatureandlatte.com/downloads/3_1.html
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/scrivener/releases/3.1
- Labels: Platforms: macOS

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- **added** — Full support for dark mode on macOS 10.14 Mojave with separate UI preferences for dark and light modes
- **added** — New Appearance option in the Scrivener menu on macOS 10.14 to override system appearance settings
- **added** — Option to keep the main editor light when switching to dark mode
- **added** — Support for MORE and CONT'D in script output via new settings in Text Layout area of Compile format editor
- **added** — Option to avoid splitting sentences across pages in scriptwriting
- **added** — New <$char_name> placeholder for including character names in MORE text for scripts
- **added** — Dual dialogue support for PDF and print via Convert Preserve Formatting to dual dialogue tables option
- **added** — Minimum number of tabs option in scriptwriting paragraph settings
- **added** — Option to include script elements as styles in exported Word and RTF documents
- **added** — Option to turn off elements list appearing on double return in scriptwriting mode
- **added** — Option to include a cover image when compiling to PDF format
- **added** — Convert to generic PDF/X-3 document option for Compile PDF Settings
- **added** — Optimize for print-on-demand services option in PDF Settings to remove annotations, hyperlinks, and navigation outline
- **added** — Direct formatting support for ePub 3 and Kindle KF8 formats
- **added** — New ebook CSS option to create styles for paragraphs using direct formatting
- **added** — From first regular paragraph in each chapter option for flattening indents in ebook Text Layout settings
- **added** — Pencil icon in Compile window to quickly edit section layouts
- **changed** — Fountain import now inserts line breaks instead of paragraph breaks for action element lines not separated by empty lines
- **changed** — Scrivenings now uses scriptwriting mode if any documents in the session are script documents
- **deprecated** — ePub 2 and Kindle Mobi formats are no longer available for creating new Compile Formats

Scrivener 3.1 Change List
Refinements and Changes
Dark Mode Support on macOS 10.14 Mojave
- Full support for dark mode on macOS 10.14.
- Scrivener now maintains two sets of UI preferences, one for dark mode and one for light mode. When you switch to dark mode and open the Preferences, you will see - and can alter - the dark mode colours.
- A new “Appearance” option in the “Scrivener” menu on 10.14 allows you to override the current appearance for the app, turning on Dark Mode even if the rest of the system is using Light Mode, and vice versa.
- When first switching to dark mode, Scrivener will ask you whether you would like to keep the main editor light. This option can be changed at any time either via the “Appearance” menu or via the Preferences.
Scriptwriting
- Support for “MORE” and “CONT’D” for Print and PDF: New settings in the “Text Layout” area of the Compile format editor add “MORE” and “CONT’D” support for various types of script (“Fix script elements that flow across pages” and the settings available in the “Options” popover).
- Added a new option to “Text Layout” in Compile, “Avoid splitting sentences across pages” (available when “Fix script elements that flow across pages” is ticked). When turned on, paragraphs in a script that are split across pages will be split at sentence boundaries.
- Added a “<$char_name>” placeholder that can be used in the new “(MORE)” field to include the current character name in the “MORE” text. This is used in the BBC Radio Scene Style format, which requires “(CHARACTER NAME/CONT’D OVER) to be inserted at the bottom of a page when dialogue is split across pages.
- Screenwriting, BBC Radio Scene Style, BBC Taped Drama, UK Stage Play and US Stage Play project templates and Compile formats have all been updated with the necessary settings so that dialogue and other elements are split across pages properly.
- Dual dialogue support for PDF/print: the new “Convert Preserve Formatting to dual dialogue tables” option allows for basic dual dialogue in script output.
- Added “Minimum number of tabs” to Scriptwriting paragraph settings. This is now used in the UK Stage Play and BBC Radio Scene Style formats to ensure that long character names do not push dialogue to the next line.
- Updated the “Parenthetical” element first line indent in the default “Screenplay” script format.
- Added a new option to the “Styles” area of Compile to have script elements included as styles in exported Word and RTF documents.
- Fountain import now inserts a line break rather than a paragraph break for lines in an action element that are not separated by an empty line.
- Added an option to the “Corrections” Preferences to turn off the elements list that appears on double return in scriptwriting mode.
- Scrivenings will now use scriptwriting mode if any documents in the session are script documents (previously it would only use script mode if the session contained more script documents than text documents).
Compile - PDF/Print
- You can now choose to include a cover image when compiling to PDF format.
- Improved “Keep with Next” when the next paragraph is an image.
- Made improvements to the layout of footnotes in PDF and print-outs.
- Added “Convert to generic PDF/X-3 document” option to the “PDF Settings” of the Compile Format editor. The PDF/X format is sometimes required by self-publishing platforms. The “Paperback” Compile formats have this turned on by default.
- Added “Optimize for print-on-demand services” option to the PDF Settings in Compile. When ticked, all PDF annotations will be removed, no hyperlinks will be embedded, no navigation outline will be included, and the PDF will be generated using the PDF/X format. These settings are necessary for print-on-demand services such as Amazon’s KDP.
Compile - Ebooks
- Epub 3 and Kindle KF8 formats now allow for direct formatting, making them much more like the other Compile formats and less reliant on styles (although styles will still produce the best results f

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