Hi folks,
I am trying to compile my book and can’t figure out how to get Scrivener to either:
not put any “CHAPTER 1”, “CHAPTER 2” headings into the docx file, or
at least start it with what it is calling chapter 4 but is actually chapter 1
I have a few text documents that precede the first chapter (prologue, acknowledgements, etc) and when I run Compile it insists on labeling each of those a chapter.
Is there some way to turn this off or at least point to the actual first chapter so it knows where to start doing that?
You have to edit the prefix for the title under the corresponding section in the formatting compile option. You may want to check section 23.8. FORMATTING, page 243 of the Scrivener for Windows manual.
In your compile settings click the “as is” box on prologue, acknowledgements, etc that you don’t want compile to label as chapters. That should prevent scrivener from labeling them so. That way you can have your cake and eat it too.
Page 243 doesn’t really say how to remove the chapter titles. I don’t really see any answers here. Does anyone have a straightforward answer? I don’t see why it’s so ridiculously hard to get rid of unwanted titles.
If you number the chapters as 'Chapter <$t>, it will number the chapters consecutively for you.
To not have any text in a folder that represents a chapter, one solution is to put no text in that folder title. Another might be to choose a different section type in the compiler (which might need editing to get it into the format you want).
