In having another look at the screenshots, there is a point of confusion in the actual structure of your project that I think may be the underlying issue. It appears you have your chapter text essentially split up between two different elements, for reasons I don’t understand. A chapter looks like this:
And that’s it, the folder doesn’t have any text in it, nor does it contribute anything to the heading that you need, because we can have the compiler generate numbered headings for us automatically, rather than laboriously doing this by hand. In essence the folder is completely useless—yet it is being injected into the output anyway using a heading style, presumably, and messing with the layout, which is using another heading style + text layout for the “Section” called “Honor”.
In short, you have way too much structure for what you really need here—you have a bunch of chapter files and that’s it, why use folders at all? Folders are for organising lots of elements so they don’t get confused with other groupings that are comprised of lots of elements.
Just use a flat list of files, and assign them the Chapter (bordered) layout. It should make your life easier when working in Scrivener as well. Instead of having 40 things to wade through for 20 structural components of a book, you have 20.
So my advice in practice:
- First, use
File ▸ Back Up ▸ Back Up To...and create a zipped copy of your project somewhere handy, since we’ll be making some radical changes that aren’t easy to undo. - Select all of the subfiles in your draft folder with Cmd-click.
- Drag them all to the Draft folder, effectively moving them en masse out of their respective folders and into a flat list among themselves.
- Select all of these empty folders and delete them. Much cleaner!
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Optional: to make things less confusing and refer to things by what they are instead of whatever the default settings assumption of the template was:
- Use the
Project ▸ Project Settings...menu command and select the Section Types pane. - Click on the Default Types by Structure tab, and select “Level 2 files and deeper” within the list.
- Click the
-button twice to remove the unnecessary complexity. You just use files for chapters… that’s all that matters. - Change the default section type for “All files” to “Chapter”, and save settings.
- Use the
- Go back into Compile. See how everything on the right-hand side is tidy, concise and now listed logically as being “chapters”? (Granted, if you skipped over the optional step they’ll be illogically referred to as “Sections”, but that may not bother you as much as it would me.)
- You will need to change the layout assignment so that these items use the “Chapter with Title (Bordered Heading)” layout; this will print “Nomad” below the automatically numbered “Chapter #” part.
That should look much better in testing.