I’m trying to have the numbering of my footnotes to restart at every chapter. When I get to the compiling I’m using the “proofing” option to have end-of-page footnotes, but under the “footnotes&comments” advanced option I can only tick the option: “footnotes numbering restarts every page”, which is absolutely useless. I want it to restart with each chapter instead, as I cannot have the numbering going on to the thousands by the end of the dissertation. I presumed this would be an easy fix-up but I could not find a tutorial or any other users answers on this forum. If anyone could please help me out with this…Thanks!
I agree with your wish, though I don’t know how to achieve it. The most common form of footnotes are (1) the type that are numbered for each page, and (2) endnotes, where the notes are arranged by chapter for easy reference; endnotes that run from 1 to 000’s (as in, for example, The House Of Leaves), are terribly confusing.
As most writers probably use Scrivener with a separate document for each chapter, it ought to be easy enough for Scrivener - during the compile process - to say “Here’s the end of a document, let’s renumber endnotes for the next chapter”?
Actually, a separate binder folder for each chapter, rather than binder document—using the terms advisedly, as far as MacOS is concerned they are indistinguishable—is probably more common, I should think.
As for “… it ought to be easy …”, my guess is that if that were the case, KB would already have programmed it in, after all in 10 years of many academic users producing manuscripts with footnotes …
This is something that you need to sort out in your WP of choice—Nisus Writer Pro in my case where it is a simple adjustment to the style sheet—after compiling.
Now you’re confusing me! I know the difference between a folder and a document in Mac (Finder); I also understand that a Scrivener folder can also be a document (so things that are related to my novel but which aren’t part of it, but not necessarily research, are all in a folder that lives between Manuscript and Research.) However, when it comes to the novel itself, each chapter is a separate document. There is a folder for Prologue, Epilogue, and Part One and Part Two, but each chapter is its own document within the relevant folder. Can you explain what you meant?
In Scrivener’s binder you have three types of entity: folders, document stacks and documents. If you right click on a Scrivener project on your HD and choose “Show Package Contents” you will see that far as the finder is concerned, these are all separate RTF files found at ./projectname.scriv/Files/Docs/ and named with various numbers and with the extension .rtf. It is the ./projectname/projectname.scrivx file that organises them in the binder, marking whether a particular file is a Scrivener folder or a Scrivener document. As they are actually all RTF files, you can convert any one backwards and forwards between being designated a folder or a document. Folders have documents and document stacks as children and a document stack is a document that has “child” documents.
The reason for having the three types is that they can be treated differently at compile time in terms of titles etc.
One of the greatest things about Scrivener is that it doesn’t force you to any specific organisation. So, without elaborating further, you can structure your novel project like 1:
Manuscript folder
Chapter 1 folder (with only title or containing text)
Scene 1 document
Scene 2 document
Scene 3 document
Chapter 2 folder (with only title or containing text)
Scene 1 document
Scene 2 document
Scene 3 document
etc.
or 3:
Manuscript folder
Chapter 1 folder (with only title or containing text)
Scene 1 document stack
Subscene document
Subscene document
Subscene document
Scene 2 document stack
Subscene document
Subscene document
Subscene document
Scene 3 document stack
Subscene document
Subscene document
Subscene document
Chapter 2 folder (with only title or containing text)
Scene 1 document stack
Subscene document
Subscene document
Subscene document
Scene 2 document stack
Subscene document
Subscene document
Subscene document
Scene 3 document stack
Subscene document
Subscene document
Subscene document
etc.
It is my belief that those who first come to Scrivener from using Word or equivalent, tend to structure like you said in your earlier post, i.e. the first way, as that is closest to the way one uses a word processor. However, those who have been using it longer come to realise the advantages of structuring in the third way, or some variant thereof. There are many of us who structure down to each paragraph being a separate binder document, as that makes it easier to move things around and play with organisation.
But, as I said, Scrivener doesn’t force your hand in any way, and there is nothing magical about the templates … simply KB and others have done much of the set up for standard uses to save time for users if they so wish. I have never used one of the templates; I always start from the blank template and develop the structure as I go along. Typically, I end up with structure 3—though some have folders at lower levels—because I have a customised compile preset to give a standard output that I can run a Nisus Writer Pro macro over to give me a properly styled document.
My novel was created in a mix of FileMaker Pro and Apple/ClarisWorks, with a different record or file for each chapter, and the occasional complete version in Word. So when I came to import the - almost completed - thing into Scrivener it was logical for me to use the ‘document as chapter’ structure. I’ve also heavily used the snapshot function so several earlier versions of a chapter are there as snapshots within each document. So for me, your Example 1 was the easiest to get to grips with. But who knows, that may change in future.
