See attachment. The selected document has the name “happy ending”, but the title bar says it is “happy ending: two girls in a tussle”. I am unable to remove the subtitle or the colon. I’ve never seen this behaviour before. I see one other chapter with the same behavior.
What’s going on?
You’re actually in Scrivenings mode. The entire “happy ending” folder is loaded into the editor, and you’re looking specifically at the “two girls in a tussle” document.
Indicators that this is the case:
Thanks. I’d forgotten that feature, if I ever knew about it. I could have ignored it for ten years.
Hello, drmajorbob,
I’m new to Scrivener and not finding what I’m wanting in the manual. Your screen shot shows a “new setting” item, where you’re showing the date of the text below. I’m wondering 1) does this date text show up as a sub-header to your section title (this is what I want to be able to do) and 2) how do you go about setting this up?
Thanks!
-Linda B.
You can adapt your chosen Compile format to treat certain documents as special – for example, to make their titles show up in your compiled output as a heading or something. Use case: I have a sort of project which is set up to produce edited volumes of short stories by various authors. So, there are three special kinds of docs whose titles represent the title of the story, the author’s name, and a month-year which is to go at the end of that story. (In my set up, these docs have no other purpose, so their textual content does not matter, just the doc title.) When I compile the whole, those documents get treated and formatted specially – so that the titles of those docs show up in the compiled output formatted in a way I have specified.
There are four steps to accomplishing something like this (repeat for each type of doc to be treated special – in the use case I just mentioned, I have three):
Define a project section type so you can tag the documents you want to be treated specially in some way (Project > Project Settings > Section Types).
In your chosen compile format, define a Section Layout , checking the box to include the doc title and setting the format you want for that when it shows up.
In the main Compile panel, you would tell your compile format to use your new section layout with any docs of your special section type.
Finally, you just need to tag any docs you want to be treated specially with the appropriate Section Type.
[Edited to correct terminology —gr]
Note that Scrivener’s documentation calls these “Section Layouts,” not Section Formats.
Thanks so much, gr! This worked for me.
