How do I re-introduce page breaks between sections? My old document was migrated to v3.1.6 and each chapter has been changed to a “Section Start” and the page breaks have disappeared! When compiling a manuscript, there used to be a simple tick box for including page breaks, but this is now gone. Can anybody assist? I’m kind of at my wit’s end.
PS. This is for Windows.
Hi.
From a recent similar thread.
I believe this should answer your question.
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That’s a good thread too, but it might be addressing something a bit more custom than what you’re looking for. Typically there is no need to modify the stock formats as they provide layouts that work the way you would want (and in most cases without any adjustment). In that case, the person wanted page breaks everywhere, even between scenes.
This thread is perhaps more directly addressing the migration confusion of things going from a manually set checkbox to something more automatic, though. In particular, it sounds like you might benefit from the migration tutorial, mentioned in that thread. For Windows it is located here.
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Appreciate the quick response. Unfortunately, these all refer to menus and options not available in Windows version 3.1.6. Also, the manuscript has been migrated so that ship has set sail.
I’ve tried to select a defined Scrivener format “Manuscript (Times)”, which introduces page breaks … but also a blank page with a “#” separator between each section start, even though such formatting is not shown in the section layouts available in the compile menu in v 3.1.6. Super frustrating and not terribly intuitive like v1.
Double click on the compile format that looks the most like what you want as regard to everything else.
You’ll get a prompt : pick “duplicate and edit”.
Then you’ll see this :
This is where the function is.
(You should refer to the manual. You’ll find everything that you need to know about these functions. And yes, the overall is a bit more complex than it used to be, but for good reasons.)
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Sorry if that was not clear. Updating the sample project that is this tutorial is the very first step taken (we at no point open the project in v1 to “prepare” it), and the rest of the tutorial entirely involves itself with what to expect in the updated/migrated project, including adapting it to the new compile settings.
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Thanks, Vincent. You actually have to right-click in my version to duplicate and edit, but it got me there. Problem solved!
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