Hey everyone, my last post was in the wrong forum section, I got no replies, so I’ll try here.
I love the poetry template for the poems but I am using a novel template since I am trying to do a collections of my poems but my thoughts on each poem also.
For example, I have an introduction to the book, then a contents page I wrote, a poem and then followed by 2000 words of my thoughts on life and the poem. I am doing this for each poem so basically, how do I make the scene/chapter with the poem in it, the same as the poetry template and keep the rest as a novel template.
Is there an easy contents generator?
The problem is that my poem in novel template goes off the page, it goes for two pages, maybe 3, but it can stay on one page in the poem template.
What is it that you are wanting to do exactly? Do you mean the line numbering ruler? That isn’t particular to the poetry template, you can just turn that on at any time in the Format/Options/ sub-menu. <- Never mind that!: I got confused as there isn’t even a poetry template in the shipping Windows version, precisely because there isn’t a whole lot of point to it without a line numbering feature, seeing as how that is just about all the project template does. These templates, they are mostly a way of setting up interface and binder structure. Some do special things with formatting, but only if there are standards to be dealt with, like science journals and essays.
(Psst…line numbering doesn’t exist yet in the Windows version. 
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There’s really nothing special about the poetry template at all, actually–all templates are created from blank–and I’m a little confused by what you mean when you say that “my poem in novel template goes off the page, it goes for two pages, maybe 3, but it can stay on one page in the poem template.” There’s no page view in Scrivener’s editor, so are you referring to compile? If the matter is that the formatting is adjusted on compile, you probably want to keep your poems as separate documents from the other standard text in your project and mark all the poem documents “compile as-is” so that the formatting used in the editor does not get overridden during compile.