Problem with Suffix in Scrivener Section

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Hello,
I’m having pains dealing with a suffix in Scrivener Section.

Images I’ll be talking about: https://imgur.com/a/CGkwKFH

This is the formatting when applying the suffix. (1)
Notice the center alignment I have not put in the text as it is justified.

Let’s got check the suffix tab:
I have put an empty line and a suffix, center alignment. (2)

Let’s, just for the hell of it, justify the line above the suffix, so it’s not a centered alignment there. Notice the suffix image is still centered as I want it that way. (3)

Going back to the Formatting tab to see if this made a difference. It dragged the suffix back to the text of the section. (4)

What can I do?
I have no such trouble with prefix. (5)

When can we expect the fix for this?

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I concur with your finding.
But, why are you doing a suffix in your Section Text structure? Are you after some form of decoration at the end of a narrative piece?
If you use one of the other structures like Chapter Heading, the suffix is not relegated to the left somehow.
I don’t know if this is a Windows only thing.
In terms of when you can expect a fix, it first has to be recognised as a bug by support, flagged as such and then it’s up to the developer and a list of priorities requiring attention.

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Exactly.

I made a seperate type of section that is used occasionally - like a scene from the non-regular perspective. Like a dream.

And i wish to put it between two markings to separate it from the rest of the narrative.

The problem is it can happen during already existing narrative which means it doesn’t make sense to put it in a different chapter or give it a title.

One of the solutions is that I manually input this img after the end of every dream scene, BUT, if I change the image or wish to resize it to better fit a format (ebook, docx), I have to do this for every manual input, instead of just fixing the prefix/suffix of this scene type.

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Let’s wait on L&L to acknowledge the bug, unless it’s already been identified by them.

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Generally, the Prefix and Suffix tabs are a mess of bugs and only work well for a few narrow things. In looking through the list, I don’t see one that precisely describes this problem, so I’ll make sure it gets added to the list.

In the meanwhile, is there something keeping you from using Separators instead for this? Since all you need is a one-liner (the image), that is centre-aligned at the end of the special section, then Suffix is overkill for the job. In the Separators tab, select the alternate scene section layout, tick Override separator after, change it to “Custom”, and then paste your image placeholder text into the field.

And of course if you want the same symbol above the section as well, you can use the before separator, above this setting. Only use between if you want something in between adjacent dream sequence sections.

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Thank you for the answer.

Absolutely, separators are not a way to go. If I “override the separator after”, what is preventing the page-break skip before the title if there is a title right after the dream-sequence?

Use case 1 - no issue:

Scene
Dream sequence
Scene
Title

Use case 2 - issue:
Scene
Dream sequence
Title

So far, I have manually put the line before and after the text in the scene.

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Yeah, that’s definitely how it would work. I read your line about them being within the flow of ordinary narrative a bit too literally then, as I figured there would always be “normal” scene text before and after them.

But then the Suffix itself may cause other issues in that scenario, where the image would be added to the end of the page before the break—but maybe that’s fine for the look you’re going for.