That makes sense, if I decide to go in that direction. (Which, I imagine, is how Literature and Latte would prefer I do it.) Thank you for the detailed step-by-step.
Is there any reason I shouldn’t just use Save As instead?
I would think so. (I’ve never tried.) But if not, I think that that can be considered a minor annoyance.
I wouldn’t think so, no. The option I showed you (screenshots) exists for a reason. One is as good as the other, each with its own advantages.
No. One or the other, that makes no difference.
Using two projects is the most straightforward option. And (in case you don’t know) it is very easy to have the two projects side by side and simply drag documents from binder to binder if needed. So, it is not limitative.
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I think you will find that Lit&Lat have no interest in how you do it; Scrivener is built to be extremely flexible, and how you approach such things… separate projects, collections, Book 1 + Book 2 folders under the binder, is entirely up to you and what you find most practicable and comfortable as a way of working.
Mark
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Select the menu function to “Save and rebuild search indexes” in the File menu when word count goes haywire.
Refer to this post, above, for some tips on setting up front|back matter for compile groups, so you aren’t having to remember to shuffle those around.
The <$wc100> placeholder itself (and other rounding variants), from the title page indeed only counts what you’re compiling at the moment. To do otherwise it would have to waste a bunch of time compiling everything outside of what you selected to compile, only to count it and then discard it.
The default settings for Project Targets is to only count from the current compile group you have selected, so that will work as you want. The Project ▸ Statistics... panel on the other hand is set up to count everything by default. Tune it in its options tab, at the very top.
A thread that links to this one may also be good reading (it goes over section types a bit more), and as I note above, these two threads are just a start, there is more that may be worth searching for. Think of how people might ask about it, like using the word “trilogy”.
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As noted, Scrivener doesn’t care.
FWIW, I have a novel, some associated short stories, and an essay derived from the research all in the same project. I haven’t written it yet, but I have ideas for a second novel as well. You can’t have two Manuscript folders, but you can create as many subfolders as you like, and can treat any subset as the “Complete manuscript” from the point of view of the Compile command.
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