Hello,
I have an outline folder with files that have text, synopses, and notes. Now, I’d like to compile so that the entries appear in the this order: Text, Synopsis, Notes. Unfortunately, when I tick the boxes in the Compile Format Designer dialog, I can’t choose the order in which the elements appear. I can only “Place notes after main text”. Which means the text is never first in the compiled document.
Is there a workaround to change the order?
Thanks for your help!
Hi
You could do Text - Notes - Synopsis
Uncheck the Synopsis from the section layout, and replace it with the <$synopsis> placeholder. (In the section’s suffix.)
I don’t think there is a NOTES placeholder, but that should get you closer to what you want.
Your text should appear first after compile. (?)
You’ll find a list of all placeholders under the Help menu.
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Hi Vincent,
Thanks a lot for this! I got it to work mostly, except for a formatting issue.
My result has the last line and the word Synopsis run into each other
I managed to get Notes in the middle/after Text and before Synopsis with the “Place notes after main text” option.
I wanted the synopsis suffix to start on a new line, so I added empty paragraphs before the placeholder in the Suffix tab. (tried to add an image but I keep getting an error from the forum)
So now the compiled output has empty spaces before the synopsis.
I can’t seem to change the formatting though (bold, italics, anything really). But this is what I wanted.
Thanks for your help!
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Of what? Where?
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Of the title “Synopsis” in the Designer.
Why can’t I add screenshots into my responses here?
That’s because you are too new of a user. It is the spam protection. Hang on.
@AmberV (Please)
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Ah, that makes sense! Thanks!
(I set your account to be able to post attachments.)
This is expected, you should imagine the prefix and suffix as being added directly around the content that will be generated otherwise. This allows for one to add things to the title (or whatever comes first), for example, or a little glyph at the end of the last paragraph of a section.
So if you want to start on a new line, you need to add one, as you did. This is documented in the user manual, §24.2.6, Prefix, and the following subsection—and yes, I do see the user manual incorrectly states you can format the text…
Yeah, this feature was started on and then never finished. For some reason the formatting toolbar was added, even though it saves no formatting and will even expose some internal formatting commands (the style markers if you use those) after a refresh. I have no idea what the thinking was there. 
It’s really only useful for inserting “plain text” right now.
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What if a style is then involved ?
Does that bit work?
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Styles would be the aforementioned case of visible markers being inserted into the text after a reload (though it might in fact not even get that far in Windows-only, it may be something you only see if the Layout is started on a Mac, come to think of it).
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Thanks Amber! I thought I was doing something wrong but since it wasn’t all that important I gave up.
The feature would definitely give the user more control, but the changes are obvious enough.
Also thanks @Vincent_Vincent for your time and setting me on the right path!
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