Postby orbivillein » Thu May 16, 2019 12:05 am
Scrivener's Windows' release is a year old and developed by a second party, the original developed for Mac. Mac and Windows have never played together well. Cross platform and application compatibility issues are inevitable. And Scrivener's more useful proprietary codes and formats are more likely to cause conversion conflicts.
Not much to do but copy from Scrivener and paste into an intermediary text application, copy from that, scrubs all Scrivener proprietary codes and formats, and paste into a Word document. Wordpad for a scrubber, for example, preserves italics, bold, underline formats, and a few basic paragraph format codes.
Likewise for email paste-ins, copy from Word, paste into Wordpad, scrubs all but what a hypertext email (HTML) paste-in accepts. If plain text email only, then, say, scrub through Notepad. There goes the italics and all. Maybe save to file whatever scrubs are wanted for archives.
Word's as installed default document format is different from Standard Manuscript Format: different line space dimensions, different margin settings, different font dimensions, several other different settings. Likely, the settings are intended for Microsoft internal correspondence preferences. Or -- an intended mishmash that forces users to learn how to reset document settings. A consideration is to set up a default document template that contains a user's preferred settings. And save as "default" for document setup.
Except for typeface, Standard Manuscript Format settings are letter size, one inch all margins, and double line space; a personal option might prefer a single line space. SMF's traditional typeface is Courier New or similar typewriter face. Times New Roman has become the overall preferred SMF typeface anymore. And 12 pt plain roman font.
Other personal Word default document settings for adjustment considerations might include whether auto single or auto double space after terminal punctuation, auto replace double hyphens with an en or em dash, auto replace three-period ellipsis points with Word's proprietary single glyph, auto replace superscript ordinal suffixes, like the st in 1st, nd in 2nd, rd in 3rd, and th in 4th, etc., or turn off all auto replaces. Plus, turn off header and footer defaults, and other pesky Microsoft forced intrusions.
