I’m a stickler for knowing the whys and wherefores of things and having just ventured into the extraordinary world of Scrivener’s Compile options I have quite a few more now Not that I’m doing particularly badly: Contents and Separators seem obvious to me and I even got to grips with the tags in the Section Layout pop-up.
But there are some things that seem to be making my output not what I’m expecting. I think this might lie in part with why some folders/files are labelled Level 1 while others Level 1+ etc in Formatting? I’m sure there is a very simple explanation and logic I’m missing here. I’ve looked through the manual and at the online tutorials and can find no mention of this specific.
Could anybody please enlighten me so I can start moving forward again. Thanks
Take a look at section 23.8.1 (Structure and Content Table). Hopefully that will illustrate what the “level” stuff means. Come back with any unanswered questions, of course.
Briefly, if a number as a “+” suffix that means the Formatting settings you apply to it will apply to folders at that level of indent or greater, saving you the necessity of defining formatting over and over for every level of indent you use in the Binder, if such indentation is not meaningful in terms of what is presented to the reader. I.e. you might have a complicated 8-level chapter outline that was the result of a month of careful work, but to the reader all they are going to see in this chapter is uninterrupted text. It doesn’t matter that there are level 7 text files or whatever. Thus, you need only set up a Level 1+ or 2+ rule and all text files will be compiled the same for 3, 4, 5 and so on. Now if you did that “Level 2+” but had something different for Level 1 text files, then only those level 1 text files will look that way. All files nested beneath them or other containers will look in accordance with the 2+ settings.
In short, you don’t need to worry too much about it unless you need multi-level treatment (part folders on level 1, chapter folders on level 2+, etc.).
Not that I’m doing particularly badly: Contents and Separators seem obvious to me and I even got to grips with the tags in the Section Layout pop-up.