I’m not sure if Scrivener isn’t exporting the correct font or if Word is ignoring the font choices I’ve got set but this is driving me crazy.
I’ve set my chapter folders to use Chapter Heading as the section layout and picked a specific font for the headings. When I compile, my chapter headings come out in a different font.
I’ve got no idea what I’m doing wrong.
My Chapter headings are set to use the Heading 1 style. Both Chapter headings and Heading 1 are set to the font I want.
When you changed it “in the style”, do you mean you redefined the style in the Editor? If so, and if the style was already in the styles list in Compile, the built-in compile style (which is Times New Roman, of course, since your format is based on TNR) overrides the Editor version.
If that’s the problem, do what I said before: delete or modify the compile version.
In the very first screenshot we see that the Override checkbox is not checked. If you want the styling preview you see there to have command of the matter, you need to check that box, right?
Also, I am confused that your Chapter Heading layout in the upper pane there is set not to include any data from docs assigned to it (not the title, not the text, not anything).
If by “in the Editor” you mean in the pane labeled “Styles” in this screenshot
then yes, I “redefined” the style by changing the font family and weight.
This format is already a copy of an existing Scrivener format. How will deleting something that’s been customized help?
If customizations in the Styles pane are overwritten by the format the customized version was copied from, why bother having the ability to copy, save-as, and customize a format at all?
That’s Compile, not the Editor, and it’s not what I’d usually call the Styles Pane (which is in the Editor). But it is a styles pane, of course.
I was talking about the scenario where the Editor version is the one you want. If the Compile version is the one you want, that’s a different situation.
That’s a compile style, not format. These are compile formats, on the left where it says Formats at the top:
Compile styles override Editor styles (when they have the same name).
It has no effect for headings coming from Prefix, Suffix, or the Titles checkbox. It affects text, which isn’t there since you didn’t check the box to include it.
If you want to use folder or file names as titles or subtitles for parts, chapters, or sections, select the title option for the relevant section layouts.
So if you are using chapter heading as a section layout for your chapters, you just need to tick the title checkbox.
I would add an image here, but the forum won’t let me as a newbie. But from the first image in your first post:
Sections Layouts
Chapter Heading
Tick in the Title column
As your folders already have hierarchical names, such as Chapter 1, compile will produce Chapter 1 from the settings in title options and then repeat Chapter 1 from the folder name.
However, if you rename the folder to Expansions, for example, compile will produce Chapter 1 from the settings in title options and Expansions from the folder name:
Doing that gets me back to where I was, only the titles come out in Courier instead of Times New Roman unless I assign the section title to the Heading 1 style from the compile styles pane.
There’s a lot of interesting interaction here among the Section Layouts pane, placeholders, the Compile Styles Pane, and the containing folders and how they’ve been assigned to semantic structures.
What I’ve done to get where I want is styled Heading 1 the way I want - Open Sans, Light, 18pt - in the compile styles pane
In the image below the sentence that says “Assigned Heading 1 to Chapter Heading in the Section Layout”, the tick box for Chapter Heading → Title in not enabled. If you tick it and compile, what happens? Without being selected, the folder / file names won’t be included.
