Ok, I made the last post way to complicated. And this time I watched all 4 parts of Getting your Work Out. Here goes. All I want is a very simple PDF output: The word “Chapter” followed by the chapter number up top followed by a line break, then the text. I followed Part 4 of Getting your Work Out verbatim, The relevant part for my scenario starts at 4 minutes 9 seconds. The nice part is that he used an example of basically what I want to do, which is have a custom format that outputs a different sized book in PDF format. I set up my own custom format and did exactly what he did and it did not work. Please see the pics I took showing exactly how he set it up. Now, he did other features such as line breaks, custom headers and footers, etc. But I want take it one step at a time. How come there is not a chapter and chapter number at the top of my PDF?
Because you’ve applied the changes to the “Chapter” and “scene” section layouts, but the “Part Heading,” “Chapter Heading,” and “Scene” Section Types are all assigned to the generic “As-Is” layout.
Click the “Assign Section Layouts” button at the bottom of the center pane of the main Compile screen to fix this.
Exactly! And remember, I followed the video verbatim. And yes, absolutely, I would love to fill out a support ticket. I would be willing to pay money right now to figure out this simple problem. I think it’s weird that you have to click Assign Section Layout when you already pressed “Save” in the CFD. Anyway, support ticket incoming.
I will try to show you how I achieved what I think you want. If you get it right then the Section Layout will appear as you want in the middle compile panel.
Now to achieve this I went to my Section Layout for my Scene and made sure the title was checked to get the Scene title and obviously include the text and it looks like this.
Now to get the Chapter above the Section title I had to play with the Title options that get added. You must click the enter key after the Chapter <$n> is placed so there is a space before the Scene title appears see below.
Can I use a different email than the one associated with my Scrivener account? That one, of course, isn’t working. But I do have another email that will work so I can attack my project.
We don’t care what email you use. Add a link to this thread so that whoever picks it up – probably me – can see the conversation so far.
Because the compile format designer and the section layout assignments do completely different things.
The Section Layout assignment pane connects the Compile Format to the actual text of your project (the Section Types). It’s what allows you to format a paperback, an ebook, and a double-spaced submittable manuscript from the same project without changing anything in the Editor.
