Hi, I’ve been trying to solve this issue for hours. When compiling my book, everything works well except the fact that the section title (for exemple: “Partie 1 - Guerre”) in the binder doesn’t get compiled and gets replaced by a generic section name “Part One” “Part Two”, etc. I’ve made a bunch of checks:
-When compiling, the part name is well checked and selected as “Part heading”
-In the metadata of each folder in the sidebar, I have checked “Include in compile” and selection “Part heading” in the dropdown
-I’ve tried replacing words in compile settings: doesn’t work
-The hierarchy of my binder is correct
-The chapter titles work perfectly well, it’s the section titles that go back to generic
I’ve read through all other topics I could find on this forum, and I’ve looked at every other settings I could find, but I find nowhere else to correct/edit the section title to have it match the folder name. As my novel is in french, I can’t have a section title in English.
Do the affected sections use a Section Layout that includes the Binder title? You can tell by looking at the preview tile in the center pane of the main Compile screen: it should say “Section Title” somewhere.
Apologies, I got it wrong in my initial messages, it’s the “Part headings” that are not updating correctly. The section titles are working well.
When I open the compiler, the layout looks like this:
“Part heading”
“Part ONE” → note that here I think it should say “Part title” and not “Part One”, as the latter is the text it compiles to. So it looks like at this step already it knows it’s not going to use my correct part title but just going to compile to “Part One” “Part Two” etc. In the binder, the name of my part is different than “Part One”.
You’ve diagnosed the issue correctly. You need to edit the “Part Heading” Section Layout and check the “Title” box. You’ll also need to edit the Title Prefix if you want to remove or change the existing “Part One” text. Section 24.2 in the manual explains how to do that.
Thanks Kewms - after checking the manual and playing around with the layouts, I realized that the only way that I could only have what I want appear was:
-Check “Title” in “Part number page” which displays “Part One” and below “Section title”
-Go to “title options” and remove the entire text to make sure only the “Section title” appears
I wasn’t able to remove “Part One” anywhere, even by unchecking everything, hence my last question: it either looks like the “Part” and “Section” parts of the books are in conflicts, or the “Part titles” can’t be changed.
From what I understand, it looks like the hierarchy here is:
Part title (fixed)
Section title (takes the binding value of my “part” folder)
Which would mean that there is no way to update the “Part title” (as the highest thing you can assign to a folder is “part heading”).
Is that correct? Or do I need to add another level of hierarchy to make that work?
Thanks again
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Yes, that’s the expected behavior.
“Section title” as used in the preview tiles means “the title of the Binder item to which this Layout is assigned.”
It can help to remember that Scrivener itself doesn’t speak English (or any other language). It creates relationships between items in the Binder and formatting specifications. So you can call the “Part Heading” layout anything you want – Part Heading, Chapter Heading, Ham Sandwich – it will still have the same effect on the documents to which it is assigned.
You can create as many different layers of hierarchy as you need.
