You can probably get quite a long way towards what you want. There’s no widow/orphan control, though, as far as I can see, or automated text-replacement, but there’s a lot that is available. I’ve seen people saying that they’re not I can only assume those people didn’t actually read the SCOMP spec closely enough. I can at least tell you that custom page sizes and margins ( including mirror margins), starting chosen folder-level titles/texts on recto pages, and verso/recto running heads and folios, are supported.
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The SCOMP files don’t support the full range of typographic and layout control of Scrivener’s Mac version, so you’ll need to experiment to see if you can get what you need. Getting print-ready output may take some more work. Thus, with a suitably-customised SCOMP file to export a Word document from Scrivener, then running it through Pages to create an ePub, you can have an ebook-production workflow entirely on the iPad. Given the lack of direct ePub support, Scrivener on iPad naturally also can’t make use of KindleGen to produce mobi files on its own like the Mac version can, but if the Kindle Store is your distribution channel, note that the KDP portal accepts ePub files too, and will convert them to the mobi format for you automatically. I’m already very familiar with YAML since my blogging system, Jekyll, uses it for article metadata. Users of the Mac version of Scrivener will recognise many of the options available (folder-level title formatting, font overrides, text transformations, etc), but there’s no UI for any of it in the iOS version - it’s strictly via the configuration files alone. Significant customisation of Scrivener’s output is possible via SCOMP files (Scrivener Compile Appearance), which you can add and edit within the app itself it’s a YAML-based format, with full documentation included.
It can generate PDF, Word, RTF, and plain text formats, but not ePub (though you can open the Word format directly in Apple’s Pages app, which can then generate ePub files on the device). What it doesn’t have, though, is all of the Mac version’s Compile functionality, to format and collate your manuscript ready for export. It can also preview the collated full text of your manuscript in-app, without requiring export first. The editor is rich text, offers typewriter mode - which keeps the line you’re currently editing at a fixed point on screen - and supports common keyboard shortcuts for formatting. And here’s a screenshot of Scrivener with the sidebar and Binder visible. The novel pictured is my own CHANGER (since you ask). Here’s how it looks when editing full-screen. A dedicated full-screen mode is available, or you can equally keep the Binder visible (narrow or wide), or open a different document in that panel to refer to. The actual writing experience is delightful, as you’d expect. Even the cork board is there, and the sidebar (or Binder, in Scrivener’s own terminology) can be used for rudimentary outlining - but you’re much better off using a dedicated tool like the unmatched OmniOutliner for that particular task. Scrivener on iPad offers most of the organising, writing, and editing features of its big brother on the Mac. Even the on-screen keyboard is very usable with practice, though you’ll certainly want a physical keyboard for serious typing, and there are a wealth of apps available to help you get words down in a focused environment.įor years, my writing tool of choice on the Mac has been Scrivener, and the iOS version was released at last in July this year. I write books, and writing is one task that the iPad is ideally suited for. If you’re a maker of iPad apps that my readers would be interested in, you can sponsor this site for a week.
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This article is part of a series on going iPad-only.
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