I want my page numbers at the bottom “outside” corner of each page. For the MainBody and Facing pages, it works fine. I put them in the corner locations:
I have a problem on the New Pages. I don’t want the new pages to have a header (which works great), but I still want the page number on the bottom “outside” corner. But new pages sometimes fall on the Verso side, other times they fall on the Recto side. This little script below doesn’t work, but it shows you what I wish could happen.
Is there a way to do this in Scrivener?
Many thanks
On macOS there’s an option to start a Section Layout on a Recto page in the New Pages tab of the Section Layout in the Compile Format Designer.
Thank you, Antoni. I guess that’s a slight workaround but I don’t want to force the chapter to start on a recto page. Sometimes it starts on the verso and I’m okay with that. Maybe there’s no way to do what I’m asking.
The main reason this is even a problem at all is because I don’t want headers on the first page of each chapter (but I DO want the page number). So I have to do the new page thing (for no header) but maybe there’s another way around this I’m not thinking of.
Thanks again for your thoughts.
Honestly, I think your only viable solution to get exactly what you described is to compile as it compiles at the moment, then open the resulting file in a third party text editor to remove the header where you don’t want it.
I am not saying there isn’t a solution internally at compile, but if there is one, I have never read about it. (And I most likely would’ve should there be one.)
That, or go with @AntoniDol’s suggestion.
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Thank you Vincent. I may do that, and have had to do some manual tweaking in the past (CAPITALIZE the first few words of each chapter works great unless you start the chapter with a quote).
I think I’ll just move the page numbers to the center for all pages. Feels wrong for some reason, even though this is a non-fiction/history book and I think it’s acceptable in that genre.
Thanks again to the both of you!
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