Organizing chapters in scrivener

[marisa]

Hello everyone

I am having challenges with chapters
For example, I do not want the introduction to be called chapter 1, but it is
I would like North Italy to not be a chapter, but for the regions beneath it (Trentino, Alto Adige, Piedmont) to be chapters 1 - 3

right now, every folder is called a chapter, but I really intended them to be “containers” for the material inside.

I tried to illustrate how it is set up below. thanks in advance.

Introduction (folder)
Italy (document under this folder, just a short intro)
North Italy (Folder)
Trentino (Folder) empty save for the trentino document
Trentino (document, consisting of one visit to a few producers)
Alto Adige (Folder) empty save for the alto adige foler
Alto Adige (document, consisting of one visit to a few producers)

And so it goes … the “problem” here is that the “North Italy” Folder comes across as “Chapter Two”, whereas Chapter one should begin with the first country in North Italy, which is Trentino. Then Chapter two would be Alto Adige. There is no need for North Italy to have the word Chapter because it is a container for the regions in N. Italy that follow.

In the same way, Piedmont (the name of the chapter) in the ebook is called Chapter six, and is otherwise empty except for the Piedmont name.

Chapter Seven begins with the words “Aldo Conterno” which follows with the document of my visit.

So in short, I put the text documents in chapters that detail the region/producer, but I don’t need North Italy or Piedmont to count as a chapter, they are just containers to orient the reader.

Thanks for any advice you can offer. I am working in Mac.

[nontroppo]

Hi marisa, that should be quite easy to achieve. But to give you the simplest answer, please tell us: what format are you outputting your work (Word, PDF, EPub etc)?

You should have a go at reading Chapter 24, especially 24.11 of the user manual. I do understand that Compiling can be quite overwhelming at first, it is a very different way of working compared to other ways of writing.

For example, you need to give different formatting rules for the title to different levels. That means you should think of the structure: North Italy = Level 1 & Trentino = Level 2 for example. Possibly a simpler alternative is you name your chapters manually by giving the names directly in the Binder.

In bocca al lupo!

[marisa]

Thank you nontroppo

I agree I may be over thinking this. I may be following the learnscrivenerfast.com and other books too specifically, as I literally copied what they said to do.

I would LOVE to follow your advise of “a simpler alternative is to name my chapters manually by giving the names directly in the binder” and this is exactly, though, how they are set up.

How would I eliminate the “chapter” thing entirely? I did not “ask” scrivener to add the word “title” …

[marisa]

And yes, this is an ebook for Amazon only …
thanks again.

[lunk]

I learned a lot about how to structure and format my book from this book:

amazon.com/Format-iBookstor … for+kindle

[marisa]

Thanks Lunk!

[nontroppo]

@marisa

How would I eliminate the “chapter” thing entirely? I did not “ask” scrivener to add the word “title” …

You are using a compile format that does this, so you have to customise it to remove the Prefix for each level:

The screenshot shows the standard manuscript format compiling to EPub. Notice that I’ve selected Level 1 (then clicked Section Layout…) and by default it has Chapter <$t> in the prefix. You most simply want to delete this text (you also need to do it for the Level 1 Folder). This will stop Scrivener adding any text to your chapters. There are a lot of cool things you can do (notice the <$t> autonumber tag for example), but for simplicity just make sure there are no prefixes and do it all yourself.

[marisa]

Wow, thanks so much! I will try this and report back!

[marisa]

Nontroppo and Lunk, thanks so much. I bought the book and deleted that chapter information and it was perfect! Very grateful!

[lunk]

Happy writing!