I seem to be missing something about Part and Chapter numbering when compiling my manuscript, with the result that I can’t get Scrivener to distinguish between the two. I’m using Parts, Chapters and Scenes, all in the correct hierarchy, viz:
Prologue
Scenes
Part One
Chapter One
Scenes
Chapter Two
Scenes
Chapter Three
Scenes
etc (I haven’t got as far as Part Two yet)
I have used the Formatting option in the Compile window to name the Parts and Chapters as such. The Prologue and Parts are formatted as Level 1 and the Chapters as Level 2. I’m also using the Novel (with Parts) template which provides Parts and Chapters. However, when I compile, Scrivener makes no distinction between the two and numbers them consecutively, so I get:
Prologue
Scenes
Part One
Chapter Three
Scenes
Chapter Four
Scenes
Chapter Five
Scenes
How can I avoid this? Do I need to reset the numbering with a tag of some kind? I can’t find anything in the documentation, and the auto-numbering page in the wiki is currently unavailable.
If you are using the same counter style for both parts and chapters, then yes they will all use the same numbering “stream”. To avoid this, use named streams. This lets you run more than one counter of the same type concurrently, so only parts increment their counter, and likewise for chapters. Named streams are typed in like this:
<$n:part>
Whatever is after the colon is the name of it. So you could put another <$n… counter named ‘chapter’ after this one, and when you compile you’ll get “1 1” instead of “1 2”. The next time the compiler comes across a code named identically, it will increment to 2, but not increment any other counters.
The other alternative is to use another counter style for parts, such as Roman numerals.
Great, many thanks. I supposed it must be something like that - I saw the reference to Prefix tags in the documentation, but not an explanation to cover this.
However, what can’t be done, it seems, is to name the first Part Prologue and then the second Part One, and continue from there. Or is there a way? Can you add a string of tags in the Prefix in such a way as to achieve this? Or add another Level 1 folder in Formatting? As far as I can see you only have one option per Level, so it’s not an option either to relabel the first part manually in a compiled word processing document.
Yeah, you’d want to manually name the one outlier part in this case. Just call it “Part Prologue” in the Binder, and then in the Compile settings, under “Processing Options”, select this document to ignore Title Prefix and Suffix. It’s in the middle section of this pane. This will turn off the prefab “Part <$n:part>” bit that you supplied in the Formatting pane.