Document headings do not appear in Scrivenings mode – is this changable?

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I had assumed that when one enters ‘Scrivinings Mode’ that all subdocument headings would be visible, so that although one is viewing the entire document, one can clearly see all the sections and chapters etc.

When I go into that mode, all that is visible is the text in the body of the documents – which means I lose sense of the heirarchy and structure of the document. :frowning:

As a workaround, I have been repeating the title of each subdocument as a Heading style within the text of the subdocument – which works, but seems like needless duplication when in 100% of my cases, the title of the subdocument is the title of the section.

Is it by design that the titles of Subdocuments (and folders) are omitted from the Scrivining mode – and presumably from the final compile manuscript?

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You can toggle this on and off as you please.

I am not sitting at my Mac right now (writing on my iPad) but whenever I don’t find or remember a certain command I use the Search function in the Help menu. Search for ’show’ or ’scrivenings’ and you’ll find the command.

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Yeah – that was it – thank you. :smiley:

It was:

VIEW > Text Editiing > Show Titles in Scrivenings

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You´re welcome!

The Help menu is fantastic, for people with bad memory like me. :smiley:
And the Cheat sheet app. :blush:

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I noticed that when I do a ‘COMPILE’ that the titles of the Sub documents are not included in the outputted document.

Maybe this is a reason to have the titles in the actual text, as per my workaround.

Is there a consensus as to what is the best way to do this?

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That is something you decide in the compile settings. You can have both title and text or only one of them appear in the compiled output. You can essentially set this for every single document by itself.

Are you using version 3? If you have a fairly simple structure you can let Scrivener guess the structure and assign structure level to every document. Or you can create your own structure in compile settings.

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Yes, i have version 3.

I probably need to familirise myself with the functionality of the Compile options – it seems quite robust.

Thank you!

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The compile part has changed a lot so it takes some time to re-learn it, but once you do, it’s quite clever.

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The four videos on compiling on literatureandlatte.com/learn-and-support are quite helpful and handy. They’re worth more than 1,000 words each.

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Thank you – I’ll check those out.

I’m definitely getting along a lot better with Scrivener now that I’ve changed some of the default functionality to my own preferences. 8)

In two days I’ve transferred nearly 7,000 words worth of notes from my iPhone – and it now sits in managable, logical sequence and strucure – the bare bones of something coherent – and infinite more managable as a project!

I definitiely love the non-linear mode of composition that Scrivener provides.