Chapters lost in compile

[AmberV]

I see the point of confusion. The thread you were posting in was a discussion about a bug that can cause italics to be removed under certain specific conditions—not about italics being deliberately transformed by the compiler to standard manuscript conventions: underlines. I’ve thus merged the digression back into your original thread here to reduce confusion for future readers.

Now if you don’t need underlines, that’s fine, not everyone does these days. In this discussion the individual was actually asking how to turn that feature on, in a compile Format that didn’t do so by default, but the instructions provided there will of course lead you to the right place to turn them off.¹

The various compile Formats you can select from, in that left sidebar when you compile, are all documented in the user manual—particularly where they might produce results that do not conform to every person’s individual expectations, like this. Refer to Appendix D.2.3, Manuscript (Courier), for an example. (Which, I just spotted is lacking a cross-reference. I’ll get that fixed for the next revision.)

@properjob

I have no idea why that might be the case. Can anyone point me to a setting that might have caused this?

It’s a bit of a mystery. Of course I can in future make sure all the chapters are included by checking the tick boxes, but I would like to know why on earth this happened in the first place.

I couldn’t tell you why, but there are a number of ways to change that setting, and I suppose any one of them might have been accidentally clicked at some point:

1. If you click on one of the sections in the Draft folder that is marked to be excluded, look on the right-hand side of the text editing footer bar. You should see a page icon with an “X” slashed through it. Click that, and it will acquire a checkmark.
2. The setting is also in the Metadata tab of the inspector, though that is a little more difficult to get to and accidentally toggle.
3. Likewise you can add this setting as a column in the Outliner view.

Those are the three main areas where this setting can be changed in the writing area. The only other place is in the compiler itself.

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^1. As for whether or not it is “intuitive” for the compiler to change your entire layout to standard 12pt Courier manuscript from whatever font you were writing in, but not intuitive to do other transformations—I don’t know. I have long come to the conclusion that this word has become essentially meaningless, and is mainly idiomatic for, “I haven’t learned that yet”.