I've been a bit too busy to mess around with Scrivener 2 today. But I woke up with a nagging thought. Some time last year I planted a suggestion with Keith, Scrivener's creator, about a feature that might go down well with a select few: the ability to turn underlining into italics automatically on export.

Keith is doubtless inundated with requests constantly and his first reaction was to ask, 'For pity's sake.... why?'

Well for a very good reason as it happens. As he soon saw -- and has now delivered on his promise. You can read why <a href="http://davidhewson.com/2009/03/30/picking-a-font-for-writing/" target="_self">in this article about choosing a font for writing. </a>Thanks Keith! And thanks again to <a class="zem_slink" title="Michael Marshall Smith" rel="homepage" href="http://www.michaelmarshallsmith.com">Michael Marshall Smith</a> for coming up with the inspiration in the first place.

Here's what it looks like when you go to compile (in order words export your work from Scrivener out, in my case, to Word). A small thing, but small things matter.

<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6166" title="Underline" src="http://davidhewson.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/screen-shot-2010-11-04-at-16-20-05.png" alt="" width="258" height="73" />