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I will try to go through this as two different sections, so you'll know how to do it either way. This is where you have to be especially careful, if you've set up your first line no-indent and first letter as I've described in the previous tutorial. It might look like this: Chapter 1∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞And here is the beginning of the Chapter… I use an empty line for this, but if you want to get fancy and add symbols here, too, it will insert the symbol between your Blue folder title (Chapter 1, for example), and the text for the folder. The third one is for separators between your folder and its first white sheet. Though, I don't think any of mine do that, as I usually have white text sheets under each folder. This will automatically insert a page break between two blue folders sitting side-by-side in the binder. This will end up looking like this: This is text in the first scene (white text sheet) and blah, blah… ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ This is text in the second scene (white text sheet), and blah, blah. The next one is for Folder Separator, and it should have a Page Break.
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Note the extra line between the scenes and separator. Then, you can add your chosen symbol into the box, either manually or by copy/paste. To set a symbol, click on the drop down menu under Text Separator, and click Custom. I use 5 of the symbols, with a space between each one, for the best visibility. This is where I insert the special symbol I use in my Undead Unit series, the infinity symbol (∞ ∞ ∞ ∞ ∞). You'll notice it shows two of the white text sheets. The only one I personally use is the first one, the separator between scenes. Separators are symbols you can insert automatically in between different elements of the binder. In the example below, note my front matter, marked in red. Remember, your Binder is the space on the left hand side (in my screenshots its background is purple) of your Scrivener window. (It should be set up this way if you followed the guidelines laid out in the Scrivener Basics tutorial.) This will include any material you have in the Binder between Novel Format (or whatever template you started with), and your Characters. So, let's go over these things one at a time. The first tab is the contents, and this is where you should see all of your blue chapter folders, along with your white scene sheets. You'll see tabs in the left hand side for Contents, Separators, Formatting, Transformations, Replacements, Footnotes/Comments, Page Settings, and Cover and Metadata if you're doing an e-book. You should see the expanded compile window as shown above.
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Click this blue arrow to expand the Compile box. Next to Format As will be a drop down box, and at the right side of the drop down box is a blue down arrow. The first time you open it (and I think it will be this way each time you open Compile in any new project), you will see a small window that says Format As and Compile For. Or, you can click File>Compile, or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl and Shift and E. Go to the top tool bar in Scrivener and look for the white sheet with the blue arrow on it. Make sure you do this in both the paperback and e-book sections. Now you're ready to compile. You should also have filled in your front matter: title, copyright, dedication, and acknowledgment pages. By this point, you should double-check that all your chapters and scenes are as you'd like them to be. As you know, page numbers in an e-book are irrelevant, because different font sizes or styles can be chosen on an e-reader device, which will therefore change your formatting and the appearance of your book. In my last tutorial, you've learned how to set up a first line no-indent for each chapter and scene, as well as a larger and bold first letter of each chapter.
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This is because while your manuscript is still in Scrivener, it's in a digital-only format. This is how you will get your work out of Scrivener and into another word processing format like MS Word, or into an e-book file appropriate for uploading to many distributors. If you've worked through the tutorial included in your Scrivener, as well as the other tutorials I've posted, you will have noticed that Scrivener doesn't include page numbers or a page count, just a simple word count. Basic Compiling in Scrivener Today I'm going to talk about basic Scrivener compiling.