I am working on compiling my first ebook and I’m having trouble with the TOC and chapter scenes. My first question is that I have opted to create my own TOC instead of letting the compile function do it for me. I’ve simply made a new page in my front matter and added the chapters as Scrivener Links and then convert them to HTML when I compile. My issue is that my TOC page, before compiling only has the chapter names (not the numbers) and this is what I want in the compile. But when I compile to .epub and open the book on my iPad, four of my six chapter have their chapter numbers and the title of the chapter. It looks like this:
TOC
Title
Chapter Two - Title
Chapter Three - Title
Title
Chapter Four - Title
Chapter Five - Title
Title
How to I either get ride of the “chapter” part of the TOC and leave just the title or put the “chapter” part in front of each title? It seems that the TOC page that I’ve created is doing two things at once and all I did to create it was drag my folders onto the page to create the link like the manual says.
My second question is that my chapter scenes leave a line return between each, which is fine, but the first paragraph never seems to indent at the beginning of the new scene. Is there a way to indent the first paragraph of each scene in a chapter.
Scrivener links, pointing to something that have the name of that thing as their text (as will commonly be the case in a ToC) will by default have their text altered to match the generated name that the compiler produces. This way, when numbering is important, or the chapter names are irrelevant to the reader and you just want numbered output, you can easily do so. If you do not want that, then you need to go to the Title Adjustments compile option pane and disable the option that adds prefixes to Scrivener Links.
Or, if I misread you and you actually want to turn off the automatically generated prefix entirely, you can just do that in one place, in the Formatting compile pane. Click on the thing that is generated chapter titles (usually folders) in the top list. You should see a preview in the mock editor below with the title and “Chapter One” in front of it. Click the Section Layout button, and delete the contents of the Prefix field. Now it will just print the name alone as you typed it into the binder. This will impact the chapter itself in the book, not just the links pointing to it though. So only do that if you want a new chapter to start out with “Name of Chapter”, instead of “Chapter 21: Name of Chapter”.
This is set in the Formatting compile option pane. Click the “Options” button, along the top, and disable the feature that suppresses first-line indent.