I’ve just started using Scrivener and love it. Then I discovered I could compile .mobi files with it. I’m turning three short stories into a compilation to put on Amazon. The compiler works great, my formatting looks awesome. Since I’m very new at this I can’t help with the original question for this topic. But I have a question of my own.
The problem I’m having is that I’m using the title of the stories as chapter headings. When I compile the TOC has the story titles as links which is what I want. But then when you go to the story it has
CHAPTER ONE
Title of Story
CHAPTER TWO
Title of Second Story
I just want the title of the story. When I’m writing a book and compile that those chapter headings are fine but for the short story compilation I want to get rid of those CHAPTER ONE, CHAPTER TWO etc.
Also, the .mobi file it compiles is very large. Is there a way to make it smaller? Most full length books I’ve seen are under 500k. Mine (with only approx 37 pages) is 1.4 MB.
Mod note: I split this to a new topic since it was about a different problem.
For a thorough understanding of what is going on here, you should read up on the Formatting compile option pane in §22.8 (pg. 187) of the user manual PDF. This section describes how chapter naming can be accomplished, the various options you can use to produce numbered and generic titles, and illustrated examples on how these settings match up with your binder outline.
The quick answer to your question is: you need to strip out the title prefix for the items that are producing these titles in this Formatting pane. I’m not sure if you are using folders or individual text files for this, so adapt the instructions in accordance with how your book is set up in the binder—or just delete the prefix from both the Folder and Text entries. To do so, select the icon type that matches you chapter name in the binder. It’ll probably be something like “Folder Level 1+”. In the mock editor below this list, you’ll see a preview. To change the output settings, click the Modify... button, then in that pop-up window, click the Section Layout... button. You should immediately see the boilerplate text. Remove that and now your titles will be strictly what you type in the editor.
The appearance of these are generated by the “Title” checkbox in the same row as the icon type you clicked on. So if you ever want to turn binder titles off, that is how you would do so (for instance some people just want the “Chapter One” bit and the binder name is just an internal reference for themselves; not for the reader).
If all of that is gibberish, try going through the referenced section and hopefully it will make more sense.
