I’ve been using Scrivener for a long time, but I’ve only recently been compiling and exporting. I’ve had two problems that I hope you all can help with.
[SOLVED] I’ve updated my author information in preferences under general. But when I compile, it’s still using my outdated address and e-mail address. When I go back into preferences, it shows correctly. But compile still won’t update. Any ideas?
[I THINK SOLVED] When I compile, there are "#"s separating sections. I’m not sure how to format in Scrivener to avoid having the number signs between sections. I just want to be able to space between sections without putting those in.
I fixed the address issue, but the “separators” show as three dots in the menu you showed. But when I compile, it makes number signs. I feel like it’s probably a setting in compile somewhere, but I’m not sure where.
Hash tags between sections are probably coming from the Separators pane in the Compile format. Same place as @drmajorbob’s screenshot, but choose “Separators” from the list on the left.
Yeah, but probably the Separators are not really set correctly. Hard to double-check from here!
Here is an exhaustive list of possibilities. Pick what you think the most likely and investigate. Rinse and repeat.
seems right to you but isn’t,
you’re looking at Separator settings for some other output format than the format you’re actually compiling to (not sure the setting varies like that but maybe),
you’re examining the wrong compile format’s settings entirely.
When you say the “Separators are set correctly,” could you be more precise? Exactly what have you defined in that pane? Because if you’re seeing hash tags between Binder documents, the Separators pane is really the only place they could be coming from.
I think I may have figured it out. I was going to General Preferences and messing with Separators there because the only settings I could originally find in compile were on the right side (with the gear).
But I figured out that I basically need to choose a formatting style [like Manuscript (Times)] and save it as a new formatting and adjust the separators WITHIN the compile examples/settings.
Does that make sense?
I’m still messing around with it to make sure it compiles without number signs anywhere, but it looks like it’s working so far.
