My manuscript has about 600 pages in 18 numbered chapters. When compiling only parts of it (for presenting it to editors), my self build “Content page” with title texts and automated numbering, the compiled content page shows the not used (compiled) chapters with a question mark instead of it’s real page number behind…
Is there a trick to avoid that? If not: could that be fixed in the near future?
Auchiller
Hi Auschiller. Are you seeing those question marks in Word after compiling?
If so, then you’ll need to run a quick print command in Word and then cancel the print job. That will have Word actually calculate the page numbers and update the table of contents.
You’ll need to save the file again after it’s done that. Otherwise, it will show those question marks again the next time you open the file.
Scrivener should have shown an alert about that before it compiled the .docx file.
Hi Ruth, thanks for your proposal. But I’m not capable to understand it. I don’t use WORD for the compilation. I just compile to a PDF for the later paper printing process. I have no clue how to use WORD (that I used all my life for daily text writing) in this process, even have no idea what the benefit of this “detour” might be. I would like perhaps to use that one day. But at the moment I’m stuck with SCRIVENER. I have about 200 photographs in my manuscript. I don’t know whether it would work to compile in WORD. I’m new to book writing and publishing. And the printing company wants to have a PDF, not a WORD document.
But thank you again for your description.
Auschiller
Could you post a screenshot of the main File > Compile settings you’re using in Scrivener as well as a screenshot of the PDF’s table of contents?
Seeing those screenshots could give us a better understanding of what you’re seeing so we can offer some tips to correct it.
RuthS, hear the two screenshots. I only compiled some pages from the beginning and additionally CHAPTER 6 “Das Grauen …”.
Hope that helps.
You can see, that the question marks are behind those chapters, that are not compiled. It would be very decent, if a reader (editor) could see the chapters and the page number in order to estimate the length of all chapters and the book as a whole.
Thanks in advance.
Auschiller
If a chapter is not included in the output document, the Compile command has no way of knowing how big it is.
Edit: Also, if the documents with the ?? are not included in the Compile at all, that means that the link from the ToC document goes nowhere. If you had the title with no text, you’d probably get a number, but a broken link is just a broken link.
Is this Microsoft Word? If yes, have you updated all the fields ?
