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Posted on 4 December 2023
In Scrivener

Autonumbering is a big topic. We already covered a lot in the previous two posts: The simplest options, plus subnumbering and numbering by page, in Placeholders: Autonumbering Restarting numbering, using and restarting named auto-numbering streams, and compound placeholders Placeholders: More on autonumbering But, there are two more aspects to consider: Hierarchical numbering Making placeholders more readable Both are also big topics, so here's my take on the first one. Hierarchical numbering The entry in...

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Posted on 6 November 2023
In Scrivener

In the previous post, I covered the straightforward auto-numbering placeholders. Now, we'll dig deeper. Restarting numbering Using and restarting named auto-numbering streams Compound placeholders Restarting numbering streams Every time Scrivener meets a placeholder like <$n>, it increments the number - and hence we have autonumbering. When does this stop? It doesn't ...

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Posted on 2 October 2023
In Scrivener

Scrivener can count for you. I've blogged about this before as evidenced in my Index of Scrivener posts. When you click Help and select List of Placeholders, 17 placeholders are listed under Auto-numbering. In this post, I'll cover the simplest group: those listed first. Then, in the next post, we'll go deeper: Hierarchical numbering Restarting numbering Using and restarting named auto-numbering streams Compound placeholders Making placeholders more readable I already explained how...

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Posted on 31 July 2023
In Scrivener

The preamble to Headers and Footers section in the List of All Placeholders (available via the Help menu) explains that only a limited number of placeholders are supported within headers/footers ...

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Posted on 3 July 2023
In Scrivener

Page Settings is one of the main places where placeholders have a role to play: specifying what appears in your headers and footers. This is the fourth post in the Placeholders series. The first post was an Introduction to the series. The second included an explanation of the coding involved in creating the tag words. The third focused on the most used tag word: <$n> which creates page numbers. Page numbers most...

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Posted on 1 June 2023
In Scrivener

I promised, for this series, to present the most useful placeholders first, and THE MOST useful is <$p> which is replaced with a page number when you compile. Simply: page numbers There are only three placeholders listed in the Page Numbers section. <$p> <$p-r> or <$P-R> <$pagecount> Should you be using one or more of these placeholders? Yes! For any document over two pages long, it's essential to number the pages, at least for...

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Posted on 1 May 2023
In Scrivener

As explained in the Introduction to this series of posts, our focus is on one type of placeholder - tag words - and these are easily recognised.  They starts with <$  They end with > A floating window, listing all placeholders, available via the Help menu, provides all the information you need for each group of placeholders. It’s unfortunate that the order chosen for this list (as repeated below) might put you...

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Posted on 27 March 2023
In Scrivener

The word ‘placeholder’ has two interpretations in a Scrivener context. Loosely speaking, a placeholder is something which ‘holds a place’ until you, the writer, provides better information. More specifically, tag words are strings of code that act as placeholders and which will be assigned a value by the Scrivener software during compile . My focus in this series in on the tag words, but let’s deal with the more general interpretation...

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Posted on 6 March 2023
In Scrivener

This is the final post in this series, and now is the time to make any final tweaks to the decisions you've made so far in this book formatting journey. Your objective, up till now, has been to create the best product, one that your audience will enjoy reading. You put a lot of effort into choosing the right words, so you could 'tell your story' to best effect. The focus now,...

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