If it isn’t currently like that and you end up changing it, you’ll have to change it back once the backup is done (the file you’ll send LL’s staff) so that it is available in your other projects as before. That’s the “Once done, restore your compile format’s location in the “My formats”” part you asked me to better explain.
You may even lose it if you forget. So this is important.
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You could also simply export it and attach it to your email just like the backup.
If you already know how to do this instead, might as well.
I tried to copy the Compile Format as you said @Vincent_Vincent and suddenly, Scerivener sent a message that I didn’t have time to read and crashed.
I looked in the Settings → Compile Formats folder and it was empty. (Later I realized that the format file was saved in the wrong scrv folder, but before that…)
I decided to compile in an old format that I had built myself and that I had used at the very beginning of my Scrivener experience and tadãaãã… everything was fine. The page breaks were correct.
As far as I’m concerned, I won’t bother trying to understand the problem, because I don’t want to revert everything to the wrong format. I’m just going to modify the format to my personal preferences, noting down all the changes step by step so that I can revert it if something goes wrong.
However, so that your time hasn’t been wasted, and if you have an “academic” interest in identifying the error with the problematic format, I’ll send it to you anyway.
I can’t thank you enough for your support and patience, nor apologize for the time you’ve wasted on me.
As far as I could read, the message was related to the “location of the file”, but I was trying to choose the folder to save the file in, I wasn’t trying to open it, so I don’t understand what the location has to do with it. Then the message disappeared and Scrivener closed.
Thank you, I got the file and it looks like we do have a bug here. It is a little elusive in that it doesn’t act the same in other tests I created that are similar, but at least in this case, I found how to toggle the bug on and off at will: it is the Override text and notes formatting setting, in this particular case, that is damaging the page break. If I turn that off, then the page break works.
Of course if I turn it off it also doesn’t format the book correctly in 12pt Courier, so that’s not a really good solution all by itself. I came up with this workaround for you, that should be sufficient:
Workaround...
Go into Project ▸ Project Settings... and select the Section Type category.
Click the + button and create a Type. Call it whatever you want, I’ll use the example, “Special Scene”.
Load the section with the page break in the main editor, and in the Inspector’s Metadata tab, assign the “Special Scene” section type.
Next you want to make the text of this scene look exactly like it should when compiled. So apply the Courier New 12pt, with double-spacing, to the text in the editor.
Load File ▸ Compile... and if you scroll through the preview column in the middle, you will find that “Special Scene” is using the default “As-Is” layout, which is exactly what we want it to be doing, since this section is already formatted.
Give that a spin, and see if it solves the problem for you. It worked for me in the sample copy of the project you sent, using your original compile Format unmodified. Meanwhile I will get this data added to the ticket we already have on this issue, so as to make it known that it can happen with more than just styled text under some conditions.
Thanks for sending us what it takes to see it, that really helps find these sorts of bugs.