Hello. I view the document an ebook by clicking draft. Now I’m looking at the entire document, all of the poems are within margin, everything looks right. I hit compile and here are some things which I would like help with.
Scrivener has take the second poem split it, now has taken the second half of it, and slapped it into the index. In the place where the poem actually is, it has flipped the two pieces of the poem as well. What would cause this?
Before compiling, looking at the whole document all of the poems are within margin, left set correctly. When compiled multiple poems are truncated. Why?
After compile Scrivener has taken a poem bolded the title and second line of the poem.
What causes this.
.PDF compile works fine. No issues. I’m compiling for ebook, both with parts, and without. I have compiled 75 times in a vain attempt to figure this out. I’m using iBooks to view book. Is there an incompatibility with iBooks? Any knowledgeable assistance is greatly appreciated.
So since things look okay with PDF, I’m assuming that your compile settings are correct. E-books in general are going to be a little different, you don’t have nearly as much control over formatting and it may indeed take a lot of experimentation to get a poem to look roughly the way you want it to—this is of course compounded by that little “Aa” button in iBooks (and similar buttons in nearly every e-book reader): i.e. the reader of your book has all kinds of display control, so certain assumptions you make might not work well. For example if you think a 1" indent on the left for some lines in the poem looks good—well that would probably be a bit exaggerated looking on an iPhone 4. Because of that, e-readers can sometimes not quite follow what you suggest to the letter. That’s just general advice though.
Also I would recommend downloading Calibre, Sigil or both. iBooks isn’t the best debugging tool as it’s meant more for end-readers. These two programs will let you dig into the book’s source files themselves. So if you have for example a line that doesn’t wrap properly, you could go into that component file and view the HTML and CSS that is displaying this line.
By “index” I presume you mean the table of contents. That likely means you at some point accidentally pasted half of your poem into the title of the poem. Given how the Binder only shows one line, that kind of problem can go missed until you compile with titles. Have a go through with the Outliner view—unlike the Binder, the Outliner will word-wrap long titles.
I’m not really sure what you mean by that, could you post a screenshot? For the most part the Scrivener editor doesn’t even work with margins (though Page View can simulate them, if you use that), and the concept of paper margins of course has little meaning in an e-book. Also, what do you mean by truncated? The text flows off of the screen?
Again, it’s hard to say without seeing a sample, but it sounds a bit like the first problem.