I'm a new user and I have a couple of questions about using Scrivener (2.6) on my Macbook Pro running OS X Yosemite:
How to get Chapter Numbers to display before each Chapter? I tried creating a Formatting Style called Numbered Heading and applied it to the first Chapter Heading. I got a “1. Xyz” and that looked good, but the other Chapter Headings didn’t update. Moreover, I don’t see an option in the List menu to have numbering Continue from Previous.
My Table of Contents comes out with ?? in the Page Number field. Not sure why…
Can I specify a set of Words that are okay (so that Scrivener won’t red-underline them). Typically, these would be Foreign Names/ Words. Also, does Scrivener give you a list of such words? I’d like to check the list to make sure that I don’t have spelling mistakes. e.g spelling a name as “Talia” in one place and “Telia” in another.
There are no styles in Scrivener, but you may be referring to Formatting Presets, which are just what they sound like, a preset you can apply to text, with nothing at all to do with other pieces of text you may or may not have at some point in the past used that preset on. It’s just a way to store formatting.
Numbering structural elements is better done in the Compile phase, via the Formatting pane. In there you can select what chapters are, as represented by in your outline (folders, maybe?) and use the “Section Layout…” button to add a prefix, such a Chapter <$n>. This is a pretty flexible program, there is no such thing as a “chapter” until you make the outline look and act like one.
I would need more information to go give you a good answer. What are you loading the file in for example? Some programs like Word do not evaluate bookmark references until you print preview.
Just right-click and choose to “learn” the word. Important note: this will learn the word across your entire Mac. We don’t have the resources to build our own spelling and grammar check facilities, and thus make use of the global Mac spell check—same thing that underlines misspelled words in Safari, Mail, TextEdit and so on. They all share the same word list.
By that token you’d just check the Mac’s spelling list, which is located in your user Library/Spelling folder (unfortunately hidden by Apple by default, but you can easily get there by holding down the Option key on the Go menu, in Finder). It’s a plain-text file, named by the ISO language code. You can edit this in a plain-text editor, one word per line is the rule.