There is a gap, a line break or something, before each scene in my compiles, so that each scene starts a line down the page rather than the first available line (as other text appears on the following page, for example).
I have tried all sorts of combinations in the compile settings, but I cannot get rid of this.
Can anyone help?
Hi.
In your compile format (accessed by double-clicking it, left side of the compile panel),
I see you have your separator set to âcustomâ.
That is most likely what is inserting the undesired empty line.
Set your separator to âpage breakâ :
â Or to âsingle returnâ if you donât want a page break between scenes.
Do it for âFoldersâ and/or for âFilesâ, as needed, depending on your draftâs structure.
Or simply in your section layout(s) (just below) if unchecking âuse default separatorsâ.
Unfortunately though, that will not prevent paragraphs from being split across pages.
That feature is not yet available under the Windows versionâŠ
Another possibility is that perhaps you have an unwanted carriage return in your title options
Or in the âprefixâ tab
Hi,
Thanks for the reply and ideas.
Tried all of those, but none are making any difference Iâm afraid.
I only changed the seperator settings in the 1st place to try to fix this. But changing doesnât do anything for me.
Any other ideas?
Has anyone else had this happen? Seems like a bug to me.
By âin the first placeâ, do you mean you only changed it for the default âFoldersâ ?
If your documents are of the âText filesâ type, that would indeed change nothing.
Plus, some of your section layouts (just below) might not even be using the defaultsâŠ
I also see that you donât tick âtitleâ in your section layouts. If you are inserting your titles manually in the editor, make sure the style you use doesnât have a space before that might be the cause of your issue.
. . . . . .
Also verify this (for each of your layouts) :
(Sorry I didnât think of this last one earlierâŠ)
These settings weâre describing do work, but finding out what youâre doing (or not doing) in sufficient detail in text messages may wear you out before you get there.
Yes, Iâm not saying these functions donât work at all, sorry if thatâs what came across. Just that they are not solving the issue Iâm currently wrangling with.
The gap before scene headings was in my first compile using out the box, untouched settings. I then tried to fix by changing âFoldersâ and âText Filesâ settings in Separators sections in compile. Nothing has changed (with regards the present gap before scene heading). It has not changed after changing these sections from custom, to return to page break. So I think the issue is being generated somehwere else.
Again, âtitleâ unchecked in all of your layoutsâŠ
Where are your titles coming from ?
From the editor itself ? [Edit] just saw your last screenshot. You have your title in the editor.
Check your style/paragraph âspace beforeâ.
â You want it set to 0.
And also in the âstylesâ panel of the compile format.
You might have an override of your header style there.
Donât worry about your <$n>
If you mean the scene heading, then yeah itâs just written manually into each text file, like you say in the editor.
Not sure where you mean to check the style/paragraph�
There there there !!!
Itâs at 24.00pt
Make that 0.00pt
Assuming youâll use a page break between scenes ?
Was that your plan?
Or do you only have an issue with your very first scene ?
All scenes.
I want a page break, yeah. That is working. But the problem is that each new scene, and itâs scene header, annoyingly starts 1 line down from all other text, as you can see when compared to text on opposite page.
After you had set the âspace beforeâ from 24pt to 0pt, did Scrivener ask you about converting your script documents ?
What did you do ? You clicked OK ? Twice ?
I just did as I told you to do, and all is fine here compiling using the âscript or screenplayâ compile format.
Make that nasty useless 18 disappear :
Set that to 0pt too. â 1.5x 0.0/0.0
Otherwise, make sure the space before is still set to 0.00pt, then hit OK all three times.
Hit Ok to next pop up window too, which asks about altering template or something.
But still no diceâŠ
Only twice though. Initial ok, then a pop-up, hit ok. THatâs all.
