I am coming back to Scrivener after about 18 months working longhand on my manuscript. So I’m remembering things that I had difficulties with earlier. Outline View, for example.
If a Document has a title, it shows the title.
If the Document has not title, but just text, it reveals that text.
How can I get Outliner to reveal text in ALL cases, whether there’s a title or not? Is there a way to finess this behavior so you see more of the contents in all cases?
Enable the Synopsis field in View → Outliner Options
To make the outliner always show something, even if it has no title or synopsis, then the View ▸ Outliner Options ▸ Use Fixed Row Height (at the very bottom) is what you want, in addition to making sure the synopsis is shown.
Thanks! I knew there was something like that. Also, is there any way to automatically add the initial content of a document to the Summary, so it is not empty?
Automatically, well that’s what the preview text is. There would be no advantage to doing it any other way, since the way it works now is a direct preview. If you edit the first paragraph the preview changes too. If it automatically set it some fixed text after you typed in a bit, it would get out of date quickly.
But sure, you can manually select a key passage to represent the outline item. Select some text (or just not, and let it scan from the top a bit) and use the Documents ▸ Auto-Fill ▸ Set Synopsis from Main Text.