When compiling, and changing the settings to make a paperback novel, my folder titles all start with ‘Chapter…’
My epilogue and acknowledgments, are chapter sixteen and chapter seventeen. This isn’t the case in the default set up; it works just fine. However, trying to format for a 5x8 novel is stressing me out. Scrivener 2 used to do it with no problems.
Any idea why it won’t just use the folder titles like it does with the default compile?
Overall it should be easier to make this kind of adjustment in Scrivener 3. If you haven’t already done so, you might want to look through the What’s New appendix in the user manual and go over the revisions made to Compile, and if that is too concise and you’d prefer a long form tutorial approach, we have just the thing available.
More briefly however:
- Open up the compile overview screen and make note of what section type your folders use, in the Contents list on the right.
- Click then Assign Section Layouts… button below the middle preview column.
- Click on the section type your folders use… and choose how you want them to look by clicking on a layout tile.
If you want to go deeper than that, you can edit the format you’re using (right-click) and then you’ll end up in a screen more like Scrivener 2. Lots of details. Lots of customisation. Lots of power. The main difference is that designs are now abstract layouts instead of being directly tied to folder/file/group levels.
Thanks for your reply.
I’ve been doing this over and over again, but nothing seems to be working.
Shouldn’t I just be able to name a folder, and have that name come up? It doea it in the default compile, yet my section layouts are exactly the same as the ones I use for the novel.
Also, the novel format isn’t the same as before. All I want to do is compile to a 5x8 novel, have my heading the same as what’s on the folder, and have my page number the correct distance (which are too low, and there’s no way to change them). I keep getting errors from Createspace saying that my text is outside the printable area, which are the page numbers.
Yeah maybe someone else will have better advice for some of the CreateSpace questions you’re bringing up, that isn’t something I have much experience with.
Yes, as you say the Default compile format does work that way. And, if you’re talking about the stock “Paperback (5.06" x 7.81")” compile format that ships with the software, it has options for just printing the names of items too. As I scroll through the different preview tiles here, I see two that just print “Section Title” by itself, one with a page break and one without. I also see two matching layouts that also include text content. They go by the names of “Heading”, “Sub-Heading”, “Titled Section”, and “Section with Sub-Heading”.
It might help to lay out the steps you’re taking if things aren’t working.
Instead of having a whole list of heading, pages, chapters, etc, that I didn’t need, I made a whole new compile format with just two sections:
Folders, and text.
From there, I worked from scratch and now it’s working how I want.
Thank you for your help!
Great! Yeah those defaults have a lot of different settings—mainly so if one doesn’t want to edit their own format they have ample choices available. For myself I prefer a cleaner start as well—I prefer just building up what I need from scratch. So I’ve made a little compile format that I use as a starter to duplicate from that doesn’t have any styles or section layouts set up yet.
Yeah, I find that because I just use Scrivener for novel writing, I don’t need many of the things that go with it.