I really hope someone can help me sort out an ebook formatting problem. I created the format output options ages ago, which is all fine, but I’ve had to add a couple of new chapters. The trouble is, all the new chapters add a duplicate entry to the Table of Contents. I checked over the compile options when I compile but can’t find anything different about them (I simply added new folders to the manuscript and then moved them into the appropriate place). So I end up with a “Chapter one:” TOC entry, then the actual chapter, then a “Chapter Two:”, netx chapter, etc. It seems to solve the issue if I put all the extra chapter files in an old chapter folder. I suppose if they don’t need separate folders then it doesn’t matter. It just seems a bit of a cowboy-way, and leaves me wondering how to format future projects.
If anyone can offer any help or advice I would greatly appreciate it
best wishes and thanks
Paul
e-book files get chopped up at page breaks as well as sections, so if you have any stray page breaks in a document, that will end up being split up and having more than one entry in the e-book. This is usually only a problem when text is pasted in from another editor. I recommend opening the problem documents in Scrivener’s editor and turning on Page View (View > Page View) and looking for an unexpected page break (you can also turn on invisible characters via Format > Options to look for stray page break characters). Once you find and delete the page break, this should fix things.
Thanks alot for that Keith. I’ve tried that but I can’t find any signs of hidden breaks and the page layout looks fine. The weird thing is that if I add an early chapter to test it, there it does the same - adding into the TOC an entry “Chapter One:”, then the new file. This then increments the rest of the unwanted chapter headings. There is also a new page created in the text of the book, “Chapter One:”, …
I’d prefer not to have to resort to adding them all to one folder. If you or anyone has any other ideas I’d really so appreciate hearing them
best wishes and thanks so much for your time and efforts
Paul
If you add a screenshot of your it’s easier to identify the problem. Preferably also a screenshot of the Layout (or is it Format?) section in compile, where it highlights the various binder parts as Folder +1 etc.
Thanks so much for that Lunk - I’ve attached screenshots of: 1- what it looks like in the TOC, 2- the compile format options, 3- the Binder view that works.
The ToC you sent is exactly what I would expect to see given the Contents pane in your screenshot. Each new section in the compiled document has an entry in the ToC.
Thanks so much everyone. I’m really sorry if I’m doing somehting daft here but I really don’t get why some of the chapters get an extra insert in the TOC. I should have shown a larger TOC to clarify. TO quickly say again: The earlier chapters - the ones from ages ago - don’t insert an extra line in the TOC but any chapters I add now do? As far as I can see, the exact same format options are set for every single chapter, yet any new chapters I now add will add the extra line to the TOC.
to quickly reiterate - when I add chapters 7 onwards into the chapter 6 folder, the TOC looks as it should?
here’s a screendump (no insert between chapters 5 & 6 but then inserts in the ones that follow?):
I really think all your comments really helped, for some reason the format options for the Chapter folder level seemed to be adding everything from ‘Section Layout’ only to new chapters added recently. When this was cleared it then cleared all new chapters and it now looks as it should.I’m still consufes as to why because I would have thought that the compile format options applied globally but I suppose the main thing is to know how it works.
I really appreciate all your help and I hope this thread may help others.
