It would be helpful to have some visual indication of a page break, either if the entire document has a page break attribute or one inserts a page break. I’m thinking like something along the lines of a thick colored line.
Show invisibles doesn’t show document page breaks, the symbol is pretty small, and you get all the other invisible characters too. Just a simple horizontal line, or some other type of visual cue would be great.
Well, for procedural page breaks (ones that have been defined in the compiler based on some mix of variables) it probably wouldn’t be feasible. The per-document page break would of course be another matter, but without the procedural page breaks, it wouldn’t be an accurate picture of anything.
Just out of curiosity, since I don’t work this way in the slightest, but what use are the knowledge of page breaks while drafting? Seems like a typesetting concern to me, like text block shift on even odd pages to accommodate for binding.
While technically possible, I’m loath to add this because the only way of doing it is to run extra checks on characters being laid out, which means extra checks and drawing during typing and I’d rather do as little in the background as possible during typing. Were Scrivener a regular word processor, the extra work to see page breaks during draft layout would be worth it, but in Scrivener page breaks within a single document have little purpose - it’s generally better to apply page breaks during the compile stage rather than have them inside the text. And if you really need to see them, you can just use page layout view.
All the best,
Keith
Thanks for thinking about this.
I was dealing with page breaks before tables, sometimes the page break goes in the text before the table, sometimes the table is the document.In the end, it works much better to have the table as a standalone document with its page break set as a document property, but when I split the document, the new split section inherits the previous page break, and when I compile the document I get tons of blank pages. I hope I’m making sense.
In any case, it matters much less than what I originally thought once I figured out a workflow around this. Now in the final pre-compile stages of the paper I’m working on I use Wrap mode and that’s the “visual cue” I was needing… It’s one of those things that I should have waited a bit before posting…