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Posted on 1 January 2024
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This post brings the Auto-numbering series to a close! To recap, there have been three posts to date: 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 And, hierarchical autonumbering. Last but not least, we'll look at making placeholders more readable, and this leads us neatly to the need to consider to Document...

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Posted on 4 December 2023
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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 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
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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 27 March 2023
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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 28 September 2020
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In this mini-series of posts. I focus on three aspects of compiling: First, it was output options. Last time: section types This time: placeholders, headers and footers I’ve already published a series of posts on compiling with Scrivener 3, that I recommend you read: Compiling with Scrivener 3: An Introduction Compiling with Scrivener 3: Outputting to PDF Compiling with Scrivener 3: Section layout assignment Compiling with Scrivener 3: Text tidying of...

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