Not sure how or when it happened.
But a second set of levels has appeared.
And some documents are in the second set.
This, of course, plays havoc when compiling.
My question: how can I move the docs from the extraneous levels to the proper and functioning levels>
Dragging them around doesn’t change anything.
I can’t delete the bad levels as long as there is a document in them.
2nd question:
How can I avoid this in the future?
Attached is screenshot of what I see:
If you haven’t already, please review Section 24.11 of the Mac Scrivener manual, which discusses the formatting table.
The Formatting table reflects the structure of the Binder, not the other way around. So if you see the “wrong” Formatting line applied to an item in the Binder, that’s because it is in the “wrong” place in the document structure.
As for the specific situation you’re seeing, it looks like you might have one of the Outline presets selected. They assume that you really do want to format each outline level differently. If that’s not what you want, the fastest way to collapse the table down to something more manageable is probably to switch to a different preset. I personally use “Original” as the starting point for most things, FWIW.
Katherine
Katherine,
Thanks for your trying to help this thick head.
I can’t find in the manual how to undo my problem.
a. How do I move content out of a wrong/bad formatting level and into a good level?
b. How do I avoid having duplicate formatting levels which become wrong/bad?
I understand that formatting levels reflect the structure of the binder.
Perhaps I should rephrase my problem.
a. I have binder documents in line order and indent order and icon order, but some show different format levels when compiling.
b. How can I see from the binder that the binder sees them as being in different levels?
c. How can I move the wild things into a proper (but hidden to me) binder/format level?
In the end, I want all the chapters to be at the same binder and format level.
Chapter numbering doesn’t work the way things are.
But I don’t see how to do that.
Again, sorry to be so daft; and thanks for your help.
Show the Binder structure, as a start.
And secondly, what preset are you using in Compile?
Here you will see the Binder.
Part One and Part Two - highlighted in purple
The chapters for each part follow.
But some chapters show yellow
Part two has a number of yellow chapters further on.
And many more show pink
The pink all are normal formatting level
The yellow are all in the unwanted, rogue formatting level.
It doesn’t seem to matter whether a chapter is a document or a folder containing a document.
The result is the same.
Starting a new project and copy/pasting is the option I’m hoping to avoid.
Thanks.
Part One is a document. Part Two is a folder. As a result, the subdocuments of the two are on different formatting levels.
To convert from one to the other, select the item in the Binder and look for the Documents -> Convert -> To File/Folder menu command.
Also, your life will get much easier if you use the File -> Compile -> All Options view. Once you’ve done that, look at the File -> Compile -> Formatting pane. Select a line in the Formatting table, and the corresponding lines in the Binder will be highlighted. This is very helpful in discovering items that don’t fall where you think they should in the hierarchy.
Katherine
Changing between file/folder for the divisions has no affect on formatting levels of the chapters.
And I have use the All Options View and adjusted compile options until I’m dizzy.
My question, simply, and using the screenshots of this and previous post is this:
How do I turn the yellow lines to pink?
Thanks
Could you post a screenshot of your File -> Compile -> Formatting pane? Please select the line that causes the problem documents to be highlighted.
Also, please uncheck the “Compile As-Is” box for the problem files. Checking that box causes the relevant line in the Formatting pane to be ignored.
Katherine
Katherine,
Thanks for sticking with me through all of this.
Here is what I’ve done.
To make things easier to see, I first removed all status and label colors.
Then I compared the Contents section of the Compile panel and noticed that Part One was set differently from the other two (Folder Level) parts. I added the missing Page Break Before check.
With that minor victory, I noticed icon differences on the Formatting screen between the set of levels that I wanted, and the set that I (mistakenly) thought had appeared on their own.
The first set were for documents with subdocuments, and the second were for documents without subdocuments. This was true for all the chapters that weren’t processing properly!
I canceled the Compile, went back to Binder, added subdocuments to all (which, of course, changed the corresponding Binder icons for these chapters, went back to Compile, and
All is well in author-land. (At least for today.)
Yes, I know how this happened. (I deleted unused subdocuments)
And yes, I’ll be more careful next time.
Thanks for your guidance and support.
Scrivener and I are speaking again.
Success!
Katherine
