Compile separators

Hello,

Hopefully someone can clue me in to what I’m doing wrong. I’m using beta 29, with Win10 and O365 Word .

The attached sample project has a binder structure of Chapters, Scenes, and Beats, each of which have correspondingly named Section Types and Layouts.

  • Chapters are folders, should start on a new page, and be auto-named Chapter One, Chapter Two, etc.

  • Scenes are folders within Chapters, and a line with # should be placed between each scene.

  • Beats are texts within Scenes, and should print without any break between them, as if they were all one document.

These all work perfectly in compile–except–Scenes.

I expected to see:

Last line of prior Scene’s last Beat.
#
First line of next Scene’s first Beat

But what I’m getting is an empty line after the #:

Last line of prior Scene’s last Beat.
#

First line of next Scene’s first Beat

I can see the empty line in Scene, in the Section Layout panel preview:

In the Separators panel, I’ve tried setting Scene’s separators in the Section Layout and also using Folder Defaults. Makes no difference. I still get the empty line.

But why? Is this expected behavior? Or is there a setting I’ve missed that will remove it?

The attached project shows what I’m doing.

Any guidance would be appreciated. :slight_smile:

Best,
Jim
Compile Test-beta.scriv.zip (72.1 KB)

Include the “Text”(tick the checkbox) for the Section Layout mapped to Scene. Screenshot attached.

Hi Tiho,

Thanks! But that didn’t fix it for me. I get the same result, even after ticking ‘Text’ for Scene.

Sorry, but it’s not intuitively obvious to me why ticking ‘Text’ for Scene, which is a folder containing no text, would make any difference.

Did ticking the box in Scene fix it on your end?

In the attached zipped backup, I’ve included a Word docx to show you what I’m seeing on my end. Also in the zipped backup is a new version of the project. (In the prior zip file, I had inadvertently included a version of the project for which the Section Layouts were not assigned to Section Types.)

Compile format I’m working with is Manuscript (Times) under Project format, and I’m compiling for docx.

Any ideas? Did I misunderstand your suggestion?

Best,
Jim
Compile Test-beta [2019_11_17_16_25_33].zip (85.4 KB)