Hi there.
I have a project that I want to compile as a paperback. I’m trying to figure out how to compile it so that all sections start in the recto position (gutter on the left). I have Section Layouts > New Pages > Always Start Section on: “a recto page” checked but I still have sections start on a verso page.
I’m working with V3.2.3. I tried searching for a similar discussion but found nothing. I’m stuck and figured perhaps someone out there can help. Please, can anyone help on this?
As a question of scope, are you attempting to use these settings with DOCX output by chance? If so, you shouldn’t be seeing the settings, that’s a bug. We don’t support this level of setup with the word processing outputs.
I’ve been trying to use those settings for Print and PDF.
Just to see what you were ref, I selected DOCX and it isn’t available like you’d mentioned.
All right, the only other two points of general advice then that I can think are:
How do you know they’re starting verso? Did you print them? View them in a pdf?
If the latter, are you seeing the first two pages together in a 2-page view? If so, tell the pdf viewer to show the first page by itself.
Thank you so much for trying to help. Turns out it was simply my inexperience with compiling. I didn’t realize I had to press the Assign Section Layouts… button and thought I could select by clicking on something inside the Section Layouts list. Once I did what I was supposed to, it’s now perfectly formatted.
Sorry for the confusion
No worries! That explanation makes perfect sense. Glad it’s working as intended now.
Thank you for trying to help. I set it for printing directly to the printer, but used the test button that opens it as a PDF to check what it looks like. I could tell in PDF because the gutters were on the right where sections started.
In the end, the problem was just newb fail
Or, as we might put it, the Writehand didn’t know what the verso hand was doing! 