Scene numbering in Adobe Story

Question

Have you noticed that scene numbers only show up in the left margin in Adobe Story?
Do you see a compelling reason for us to show scene numbers on both the left and right margins in Adobe Story?
Would you find it useful to have the scene number on both the left and right margins like FinalDraft does by default? Or, can you live without this?
--Anubhav
Anubhav Rohatgi
Product Manager, Adobe Story.
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Answer 1

No one responded that they didn't want scene numbers on the right.  That doesn't mean they don't want them and that they shouldn't be there.  One other person did say there should be scene numbers on the right.  If it's standard industry practice I don't understand why it's not there.
Other issues at the top of my head:
Lack of fonts.  I want to be able to use different fonts for the titles on the title page.  Other screenwriting software allows use of any font installed on the computer.
The title page uses the same page layout as the rest of the script.  This forces the text too far to the right on the title page, and the copyright info and contact info butting up against each other at the bottom.  Final Draft has a different page layout for the title page than the rest of the script so we can really customize our title pages.  This is minor, but still something that was giving me difficulty to the point that I'd have to create the title page in a different document or even a different app.
I started another thread that hasn't been responded to about scene headings being left on a preceding page by themselves.  For example, I start a new scene on the bottom of a page.  The only room left on the bottom of the page is enough for the scene heading but not for even just one paragraph of action for that scene.  The action falls to the next page, but the scene heading is still left on the previous page.  This goes for new scripts and imported scripts from Final Draft.  I don't see any options in the preferences or template settings to fix this, and this makes Adobe Story unusable.  This is a big problem.
I don't want to use the online features and don't want my scripts ending up on a server.  However, if I go online all of my offline scripts are all automatically synced online.  I want software that allows me to keep my scripts on my computer and only on my computer.  Someone could hack Adobe's server and download scripts.  It's intellectual property and I'm very protective of it.  There should be an option to turn off syncing, even if status is online.  This is another big one.
There's a lot of great features with Adobe Story, but certain things will prevent a lot of writers from wanting to use it, especially when there's other software without those issues.  I'll keep my eye on it, but right now I'm perfectly happy with Final Draft.
I have a great suggestion though... take a good look at the outlining/summary and scene writing features of Mariner Software's Montage.  I wish Final Draft had that feature.  Montage could do a little better job of implementing it, but it's a very cool feature.  You write your outine in the screenwriting app, and then write the scene within each outline sequence.  You can disable or enable specific sequences or scenes, move them around, etc.  It's the best and most unique feature of that software, but unfortunately the software is buggy and hasn't been updated in a few years.  Something like that would make me switch.  You have to offer something very unique and compelling to unseat the industry standard.