I would love it if there were checkboxes in the first compile pane for title, synopsis and text, so that I’d be able to choose whether or not to include them on an item-by-item basis, rather than just per level.
My situation: I need to submit a “whatever you have” current draft of my dissertation to my advisor - some of my binder items are complete chapter drafts, others are still just a heading and a bunch of notes to myself. All chapters have synopses that I wrote during the outline stage.
Ideally, I would like to be able to hit “compile” and have the complete chapters appear with their text (no synopses) and the others without their text (which is unsubmittable) but with their synopses. However, as far as I can tell, the only way to do this is by changing the level of one set of documents, but there are a ton of them, and I would be messing with the carefully arrived-at structure of a 500 page dissertation, so that’s not an option. The other way is to include text and synopsis for each level and then manually delete one or the other in the compiled draft. Clearly not ideal.
I had a very knowledgable forum user help me look for solutions, but as she couldn’t come up with anything either, I am submitting this to you.
I’m in the middle of a redesign for Compile for a future version, and one thing I’m looking at is something that would address this (essentially having the level formatting as the default for documents, but allowing you to override that on a per-document basis as needed). Watch this space.
Ah, that’s interesting, as I am looking for something similar myself. I am working on a non-fiction book which includes figures and tables. Each figure or table has its own document, which includes the figure number and title in the text, so I don’t want to include the document title in the compile (it would become a heading my final word document). At the moment I have to ‘compile as-is’ to lose the title, but that also means that the formatting of captions and table notes is left ‘as is’.
As I have have used the Status metadata field to defined document type (text, figure reference, figure image) it would be wonderful if I could set the compile to include or exclude the title for documents depending on the Status field. Documents defined as ‘text’ would get the title, while those defined as ‘figure reference’ would not.
(Figure reference documents include the number and title of the figure, Figure image documents include that and the drawing. Arranging things that way enables me to compile a filtered version of the text with only the figure references – which my editor wants – or with the images for my review. I can also, very easily, compile a list of figures, or a document with just the figures.)
