PAGE LAYOUT VIEW

You can switch to page layout view to view your text on

virtual pages by clicking on the “Wrap” button in the toolbar or by
going to View menu and selecting Page View > Show Page View.
Note, however, that the pages you see on screen may not match
exactly what you see when the text is compiled for print or
export. The concept of pages is largely meaningless in Scrivener,
because you work on the different parts of your manuscript in
smaller pieces and can completely change the formatting and
insert other elements, such as titles, during the Compile process.
So the final arrangement of the pages isn’t really known until the
text is compiled into one document. Thus, unlike traditional word
processors where the page layout view is intended to show you
exactly what you will see when you print out your text, in
Scrivener it is intended mainly for writers who just feel more
comfortable seeing pages fill up on the screen. To that end, you
can set up the virtual pages so that they are smaller or larger
than printed pages. To do so, select “Use Preferences Page Size”
from the View > Page View menu and choose the size of the
pages you’d like to work with on screen in the “Editor” pane of
the Preferences (under the “Wrap to Page Mode” section).
Choosing “Use Printed Size” will use the current print settings as
the basis of the page size.
The page layout view is also useful for screenwriters who use
the rule of thumb that one page of script equals one minute of
screen time.
 THE FORMAT BAR
The format bar runs horizontally just below the toolbar and
allows you to access common formatting commands easily. From
the format bar you can change the font, text alignment, line
spacing, text and highlight colour, and create lists. You can turn
the format bar on or off by choosing “Hide Format Bar” from the
Format menu. Note that if you click and hold the text colour or
highlight buttons in the format bar for a second, a menu will
appear that allows you to choose from a list of colours (clicking
on the buttons applies the currently-selected colour). You can add
colours to these menus by dragging colours to the swatch in the
standard colour palette (available by choosing “Show Colors”
from the Format > Font menu).

THE FORMAT MENU

The Format menu provides various ways of formatting your
text which are standard in many Cocoa applications (such as
TextEdit) along with some that are unique to Scrivener, the latter
of which are listed below.

HIGHLIGHT
Pretty straightforward, this one. Choose from several
standard highlighter pen colours to highlight your text. (Note that
to change the highlighter pen colour via the toolbar, click and
hold the Highlight toolbar icon for a second; you will need to add
the Highlight icon to the toolbar via View > Customize Toolbar
first.)
 INLINE ANNOTATION AND FOOTNOTES
We looked at inspector comments and footnotes in step 5h,
but there’s another way of adding notes to your text, too. Inline
annotations and footnotes allow you to make notes right inside
your text (whereas inspector comments and footnotes are hidden
away in the inspector until you need them). The two types each
have their own advantages, so it’s up to you which you use - or
you can use a mixture of both. Inline footnotes and annotations
look like this:

This text has a footnote after it.{\Scrv_fn= This is a footnote.

When the text is compiled, exported or printed, this footnote will
be turned into a “real” footnote (or endnote).\end_Scrv_fn}
 {\Scrv_annot \color={\R=1.000000\G=0.000000\B=0.000000}
\text=And this is an annotation. Annotations can be completely
removed from the text when you compile, print or
export.\end_Scrv_annot}

Each was created by selecting the text and choosing either

“Inline Annotation” or “Inline Footnote” from the Format menu.
Alternatively, you can also just choose “Inline Annotation” or
“Inline Footnote” with no selection and start typing (note that you
can change the colour of an annotation by clicking in it and
changing the font colour using the Show Colors panel or the
format bar). When you export your work, ranges of text defined
as footnotes can be turned into real RTF footnotes that can be
read by Word, Nisus Writer, Mellel and other major word
processors. Ranges of text defined as annotations can be turned
into RTF comments (which Word can read) or omitted altogether.
One thing to note is that when you create inline footnotes, the
grey bubble should start exactly where you want the footnote
marker to appear in the printed or exported text.

REVISION MODE
Revision mode simply allows you to use a different text
colour while editing or revising your text, without having to
change the colour again every time you click into a different part
of the text. To enter revision mode, select one of the colours
(“First Revision”, “Second Revision” and so on) from the Format >
Revision Mode menu (you can set your preferred revision colours
in the “Appearance” pane of the Preferences). In revision mode,
no matter where you click in the text, when you start typing the
text will appear in the chosen revision colour.

SCRIVENER LINKS
Scrivener links are much like web hyperlinks, except that
they link to other documents within the current Scrivener project.
To create a Scrivener link, select the name of the document to
which you wish to make a link from the Scrivener Links menu in
the Edit menu. This will create a hyperlink in your text document.
Alternatively, choose “New Link…” to bring up a sheet that allows
you to create a new document to which to link, or to choose from
existing documents in the project. Clicking on a Scrivener link will
open the linked document in a QuickReference panel by default,
but you can change this behaviour in the “Navigation” pane of
the preferences and choose how you would like links opened. You
can also create Scrivener links by dragging a document from the
binder, outliner view or corkboard and holding down the Option
key while dropping the document into the text (if you don’t hold
down the Option key, the content of the document will get
dropped into the text if possible). Scrivener links can be useful for
creating tables of contents or references within your research.

Try clicking on the Scrivener link below:

spacewalk_info

A PDF document will be opened in a QuickReference panel.

Close the panel and then move on to “Step 20” in the binder.