Hm. I can think of at least a couple of fairly easy ways to make that work if you want. It can compile and export to Word, or you can set Word as the external editor, or simply--after export--copy and paste into the template. But it might not be the thing for you anyway, simply because, you know, some people like ice cream, and some people like frozen yogurt.
One of my biggest "Scrivener love" features is how much it helps me with organization by making it faster and easier to split things into chunks and rearrange them, but you're a pretty organized person already, and I don't imagine you have the kind of trouble working with a single monolithic document as I do. I mean, come on... I have the attention span of a gnat on crack, and Swiss cheese envies the holes in my memory. I need all the organization help I can get. :-D
I have a Word template with a lot of formatting to do as I go, so I rely heavily on the style formatting for the template, so all the captions, notes, headers, etc are formatted in the template, and every time I copy and paste, I end up having to reformat. There are also a lot of embedded pictures, and it didn't seem that those were handled well. I tried downloading the free Scrivener trial, because I heard a lot of rave reviews, but I just couldn't get it to work with what I had to deliver back to the publisher. Maybe there were obvious features I just missed. I don't know.
Yeah, I know Scrivener can import a lot of things, but I don't know whether it can import complex Word templates, and if you're not unhappy with your current workflow it might be more trouble than it was worth to recreate the template in Scrivener.
The attachment at the bottom didn't transfer from AEL - I just spent twenty minutes finding it because I'm so excited to get my hands on a Linux version! thank you for this!
You're welcome. Lemme know if it installs and works okay for you. I'm running the native Linux version on Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick 64-bit, and the Windows version in Wine 1.3.16 (and the Mac version in a hackintoshed virtual machine in Virtualbox, but we won't go there). And to think--If noy for my buddy Erick "The Story Doctor" King, I'd never have even known about the Mac version way back when.
But wait... you mean you had trouble with the Lit&Lat links? Hmmmm... Worked fine for me earlier. S'how I got the tgz to shuffle around and repackage as a .deb and the Win version to test in Wine. Lee, over at Literature and Latte, said he plans to go ahead and put the deb on their server--which I guess would make it the uh... official .deb of the still-unofficial Linux port? But as of this writing the only Linux version on the official site is the tgz. :-D
The attached link-for-download at the bottom of AEL was not at the bottom of the LJ post, and it just took me a while to read through everything to find it. It has downloaded and installed just fine; now I just have to figure out how to use it. :D
Awesomeness! I was so disappointed to discover that such a highly-regarded program was only for Mac - I'm so glad you pointed this out.
Dude... I fail at teh intarwebs when I don't even recognize an abbreviation for my own friggin' site. And yeah--I am totally stoked that Scrivener's no longer Mac only! (Or did you already notice my stoked-ness?)
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One of my biggest "Scrivener love" features is how much it helps me with organization by making it faster and easier to split things into chunks and rearrange them, but you're a pretty organized person already, and I don't imagine you have the kind of trouble working with a single monolithic document as I do. I mean, come on... I have the attention span of a gnat on crack, and Swiss cheese envies the holes in my memory. I need all the organization help I can get.
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But wait... you mean you had trouble with the Lit&Lat links? Hmmmm... Worked fine for me earlier. S'how I got the tgz to shuffle around and repackage as a .deb and the Win version to test in Wine. Lee, over at Literature and Latte, said he plans to go ahead and put the deb on their server--which I guess would make it the uh... official .deb of the still-unofficial Linux port? But as of this writing the only Linux version on the official site is the tgz.
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AEL was not at the bottom of the LJ post, and it just took me a while to read through everything to find it. It has downloaded and installed just fine; now I just have to figure out how to use it. :D
Awesomeness! I was so disappointed to discover that such a highly-regarded program was only for Mac - I'm so glad you pointed this out.
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