# Scrivener 3.4 — Version 3.4 - Product: Scrivener (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/scrivener) - Vendor: Literature & Latte - Date: 2024-12-11 - Version: 3.4 - Original notes: https://www.literatureandlatte.com/downloads/3_4.html - Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/scrivener/releases/3.4 - Labels: Platforms: macOS What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog. Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'. --- - **added** — Added Apple Intelligence Writing Tools support with a new Writing Tools menu in Edit and contextual menus for proofreading, summarizing, and rewriting text - **changed** — Renamed Scrivener's Writing Tools menu to Edit > Reference Tools to avoid confusion with Apple's new Writing Tools feature - **changed** — Moved Linguistic Focus into Edit > Spelling and Grammar - **removed** — Removed selected word and character counts from the contextual menu - **changed** — Improved right-to-left text support in ebook export - **changed** — Updated built-in MultiMarkdown to version 6.7.0 - **changed** — Updated Basic Pandoc compile format to use ePub version 3 by default - **changed** — Pandoc export now uses the Pandoc 3 --split-level command instead of the old Pandoc 2 --epub-chapter-level - **changed** — The Pandoc Compile setting Split chapters at level can no longer be set to anything less than 1 - **changed** — Superscript ordinals setting now works for French as well as English - **changed** — Writing history is now saved during manual saves if any text has changed - **changed** — Copying text now includes style information in RTF pasteboard data - **changed** — Added extra padding around text in format bar buttons - **changed** — Updated .scriv project thumbnail generation code for macOS 15 - **added** — Added 0x7F to characters affected by Zap Gremlins - **fixed** — Fixed exception thrown when closing a Copyholder while an inspector or footnote was being edited - **fixed** — Fixed RAM usage spike and app hang when opening a PDF from project search due to inefficient search highlight application - **fixed** — Fixed bug whereby editing image names in Scrivenings would not trigger autosave and changes would be lost - **fixed** — Fixed bug whereby recto and verso pages would be off if a cover page was inserted during PDF compile Scrivener for macOS Scrivener for macOS Version 3.4.0 Literature & Latte 11 December, 2024 Scrivener 3.4 requires macOS 10.13 or above (10.12 is no longer supported by Apple’s latest developer tools). Refinements and Changes Writing Tools Support - Improved support for Apple Intelligence Writing Tools. On systems where Writing Tools are available, a new “Writing Tools” menu appears in the Edit and contextual menus, allowing you to use Apple Intelligence to proofread, summarise, and make rewrite suggestions. - Note that Writing Tools are a system feature provided by Apple. Scrivener itself contains no AI. At the time of writing, Writing Tools are only available for US English. - Writing Tools suggestions now appear in a panel. - To avoid confusion with this new macOS feature, Scrivener’s own erstwhile “Writing Tools” menu has been renamed Edit ▸ Reference Tools. “Linguistic Focus” has been moved into Edit ▸ Spelling and Grammar. With this reshuffle, the selected word and character counts have been removed from the contextual menu, as the footer bar now shows these selection stats anyway. Export - Improved right-to-left text support in ebook export. - Updated the built-in version of MultiMarkdown to 6.7.0. - Updated the Basic Pandoc compile format to use ePub version 3 by default. - Pandoc export now uses the Pandoc 3 --split-level command to split ePub files rather than the old Pandoc 2 --epub-chapter-level. - The Pandoc Compile setting “Split chapters at level” can no longer be set to anything less than 1. Miscellaneous Enhancements - The “Superscript ordinals” setting now works for French as well as English. The option is hidden for other languages, where superscript ordinals are either not used or not available. - Writing history is now saved during manual saves if any text has changed. (Previously it was only saved on project close or when the date changed.) - Copying text now includes style information in RTF pasteboard data. - Added a little extra padding around text in the format bar buttons. - Updated the .scriv project thumbnail generation code for macOS 15, so that icons continue to display as expected in the Finder. - Added 0x7F to characters affected by Zap Gremlins. - Minor updates to the tutorial project. - Improved documentation in the General Non-Fiction (LaTeX) project template. Bugs Fixed Major (Stability) - Fixed a bug whereby an exception would be thrown if you closed a Copyholder while an inspector or footnote was being edited. - Fixed bug whereby opening a PDF from project search could cause a spike in RAM usage and hang the app because search highlights were being applied inefficiently. - Fixed bug whereby editing image names in Scrivenings wouldn’t trigger an autosave and such changes would be lost. Minor (Usability) - Worked around a bug in the NaNoWriMo word count APIs which resulted in the word count updater showing the old word count in the success dialogue after updating the NaNo servers. - Fixed a bug whereby if you collapsed a folder in the binder that contained an item whose title you were editing, the new title could be assigned to an item below the folder. - Fixed bug whereby the style to delimiter in Script Settings wouldn’t work correctly with auto-complete. For instance, in Stage Play UK formatting, hitting tab after a character name inserts a colon and a tab, and the colon should be bold like the preceding character name. However, the bug meant that the colon would not be bold. - Hopefully worked around a TextKit redrawing bug that could occur when hitting return or backspacing from an empty line in page layout mode (Text below the return character would not redraw in some circumstances.) - Fixed a bug whereby freeform corkboard coordinates could get messed up when duplicating folders or when switching between folders or groups using the freeform corkboard. - Fixed issue whereby not all MultiMarkdown formats were available in the Compile format editor. Export and Compile - Fixed a _[Truncated at 4000 characters — full notes: https://www.literatureandlatte.com/downloads/3_4.html]_