Sure, this is easy enough to do. I would actually recommend starting with a compile format that is quite close to what you want already, and it can be more easily tweaked to add Notes, but in following the below you should be able to modify any Format:
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Select the “Outline Document” Format in the left sidebar of the compile overview screen.
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Use the
Assign Section Layoutsbutton to set up the layouts for how the different elements will print. Maybe you want major sections to use “Chapter Title” and all subsections to use “Title and Synopsis”, for example. This should give you a preview that looks a bit like this:
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Once you save that, double-click on the preview of the layout using a synopsis to edit its settings.
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The window will open to the Section Layout design pane. The documentation for this is in §24.2, Section Layouts of the user manual PDF. There is a lot that can be done in this pane—but mainly all you’re going to want to do is in the area marked (b) in Fig. 24.2, by clicking the “Notes” checkbox for this layout.
That’s it, the rest is just detailing:
- As you will see in the Formatting tab below, we’ve already set things up to look cohesive for you. If you want to use a unique font or layout for notes vs synopsis though, you can do so using familiar tools in that lower half of the window. Maybe the synopsis could be inset a centimeter or so, and italicised, for example.
- If you do go with unique styling for each, and would prefer to not see the little subtitles, click the
∙∙∙button in the top right, and disable Insert subtitles between text elements.