Absolutely essential: I’ve now been struggling for two days with the chapter list in the inscrutable Compile/Formatting dialogue. The novel I’m formatting has a fairly normal structure: prologue, 10 chapters, epilogue.
There really should be a Chapters section in this dialogue showing all of the folders and scenes, where you could choose which chapters will be numbered and which not.
But there’s no such thing as “chapters” in Scrivener - only folders and text files. It’s up to you what you do with them. So Compile has no way of knowing what is a chapter and what isn’t - that’s why Compile/Formatting is set up as it is, so that you can tell Scrivener how to treat folders and text files. That is exactly how you tell it that they should be treated as chapters or scenes…
Do you have a “Title Adjustments” section in your compile dialogue? There are a couple of check-boxes, and a drop-down that lets you do the opposite (suppress the chapter prefixes and suffixes) rather than telling it which files or folders to include. If you don’t, then it must be part of the Mac beta I’m running. When Keith releases it, then you’ll gain that feature if you don’t already have it.