Comments on: Scrivener 3: Compile Formatting for Ebook and Print

By: New Lessons: eBook to Print | Author One

New Lessons: eBook to Print | Author One — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 21:55:14 +0000

[…] Keywords. Here’s why. I assign a keyword to each scene or chapter within which a certain character appears. Then I can search on that keyword in my 100,000-word novel to see how many scenes or chapters in which that character appears. Or I assign a different keyword to all the scenes or chapters relevant to one storyline, and a different keyword to another. That helps me understand the balance and distribution across the storylines. […]

By: Rob Campbell

Rob Campbell — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 16:34:38 +0000

In reply to Osman. I don’t know the answer to that off-hand, sorry!

By: Osman

Osman — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 17:32:40 +0000

Does Scrivener let you add crop marks for print-ready PDF files?

By: Rob Campbell

Rob Campbell — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 18:37:45 +0000

In reply to Julie Sauvageau.

Glad to hear it! Congrats on your first paperback. 🙂

Let me know if there’s anything I can do to improve the article.

By: Julie Sauvageau

Julie Sauvageau — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 23:11:37 +0000

Thank you so much for this! Was a great help for me, publishing my first paperback version on amazon 😉

By: Rob Campbell

Rob Campbell — Sat, 21 Jul 2018 15:53:16 +0000

In reply to John Laudun. Yes, it is confusing. I think by giving us a lot of flexibility with compile formatting, they've passed on a lot of complexity in the interface. I should take another pass through this when I do my next book and see if there are any shortcuts that would make the process easier. Thanks for the feedback!

By: John Laudun

John Laudun — Fri, 20 Jul 2018 18:16:07 +0000

Thanks for explaining the basics. Your post got me halfway through. There are still some things that confuse me, but that’s on me. (Also, L&L, if you’re reading, you’ve made some of this needlessly complex.)

By: Rob Campbell

Rob Campbell — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 18:23:55 +0000

In reply to Lorena Cassady.

Hi Lorena,

The structure is generally,
Chapter (folder)
– Scene (Text)

Sometimes a Chapter will have more than one scene and Scrivener does the thing where it inserts a Scene Separator between them on compile. So, generally more than one page per chapter.

Hope that helps a little. Feel free to ask questions if that’s not clearer.

By: Lorena Cassady

Lorena Cassady — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 21:22:54 +0000

But but but… What are you compiling FROM? Like, what does your book MS look like in Scrib — one chapter per page? Per folder? I can’t begin to follow until I know what I should be starting with! Thanks!