If a paragraph doesn’t fit on one page, it isn’t split to flow onto the next page, and is instead moved in its entirety to the next page. I want my text to flow as it does in most books, filling the current page and then flowing to the next. What do I need to do? Shouldn’t this be the default mode?
Check to see if the “Keep With Next” attribute is applied to either the problem paragraph or the ones before and after it.
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Scrivener will not allow me to set this property. When I click on the menu item, nothing happens. The menu item selection stays the same. Shouldn’t the flow of text be by default true? I see zero printed books with new paragraphs starting on new pages (except at starts of titled sections or chapters). Is this a property set for each paragraph separately? Is it a global project or document property? All of my paragraphs in all of my documents are set to No Style. What is going on here? I am Compiling to PDF. I notice in other posts here that some are claiming that Keep with Next is broken. Is this true? All I want to do is Compile out as standard text formatting where paragraphs are split and flow naturally from page to page. Is there really no way to get Scrivener to compile out to PDF with paragraphs that split at bottom of page and flow from page to page naturally as one expects to see in all printed books?
PS, I have tried all three permutations of the Keep with Next (on all paragraphs within my test document). All paragraphs in this document are set to No Style. Text never flows to bottom margin, always ends at the bottom of a paragraph if the next paragraph won’t fit in the page (leaving ugly white space at the bottom of each page).
The “Keep with Next” setting is off by default, but can be turned on either to keep a section head with its accompanying text or because someone is trying to manage their page layout through the Scrivener Editor (which we do not recommend).
If that’s not the cause of your issue, I’d need to look at the project directly to make any additional suggestions. Please open a support ticket, here:
https://www.literatureandlatte.com/contact-us
I really don’t understand. There is noting strange with my project. I have tried several fresh new projects from the non-fiction template. Same issue some of the time, some of the time not. I am also having trouble, as I have indicted in other posts, in setting the title text color in section layouts, and, I getting blank verso pages facing my recto page chapter with titles sections. Can’t figure out how to make that happen.
Again, please open a support ticket, here:
https://www.literatureandlatte.com/contact-us
It’s impossible to say what might be happening without actually looking at your settings.
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