With Scrivener, when you compile your manuscript, you can choose which font. Sometimes I like reading in a sans-serif font, one without those little hooks on the ends of letter forms. However, I don’t always like reading in a serif font. Not sure why, maybe too many years of writing for the web and code, but I like writing in serif. Remember, as discussed in the tutorial on how to format your manuscript for writing, what appears on the screen may be different what the final version prints. When it comes time to print these versions, or the final glorified version of my manuscript, it begins with a compilation process as I choose which documents to include or exclude from the version I’m creating – or, in Scrivener language, compiling. I could have even more versions, and at any time along the process of writing I could print out any of these versions for posterity, or go back to an earlier version to find out why I wrote it that way or what an editor had to say, or restore an edited version to one of the original versions, all within the same project file. Another version with alpha reader edits added.The cleaned up version of that copy editor.A copy edited version returned from a copy editor.
In one of my Scrivener projects, I have 6 versions of a book I’m working on. It represents the power in Scrivener to literally compile your writing how you wish it to appear in print or in a digital file for the next steps in preparing your book for publishing. The process of printing a manuscript in Scrivener is called compiling.
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