New Feature Addition · Manuscripts · Created by
KK Gore
declined
manuscripts formatting columns documents templates user-submissions epistolary-work
What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
I am writing an epistolary work that requires quite a lot of official documents like contracts and newspaper articles to be reproduced. I am finding it quite difficult to format some of these in manuscripts. Newspaper articles in particular are difficult to reproduce because I cannot find a way to separate the text into columns.
How does this feature request address the current situation?
While my immediate problem of needing to format columns could probably be fixed with a button in the editor, a more holistic approach might be to offer a range of templates for some standard documents people might want to recreate (birth certificates, newspaper articles, employment contracts, that kind of thing). This could then be a feature that the community could submit their own templates to and from there could grow quite organically.
What are other uses for this feature request?
I cannot think of other direct uses for the feature, but I do think it would be a feature that could inspire some really creative work and that the user generated templates might encourage the development of a whole little community of template modders here on World Anvil. But that is quite possibly wishful thinking on the part of a policy wonk.
Follow up
I'm sorry, could you please clarify what "Manuscripts is not for this built for using longform prose" means. I think the sentence has been somewhat mangled in translation.
The Team's Response
Thank you for this suggestion! Manuscripts is not for this built for using longform prose - However, this is a great use of the documents template in articles! - If you have a deeper concern, please feel free to email us at
[email protected].
Current score
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