I love Scrivener. That said, I have had a lot of trouble using it to create a table of contents. Something always goes wrong, often in weird ways. For ePub files, there is an alternative. An ePub file is a zipped (compressed) file containing a number of XHTML files—one XHTML file per book chapter, p...

For my current book, Scrivener is generating an illegal table of contents in ePub. It has <li> tags inside <li> tags. For example, <li><a href="body5.xhtml"> <li>Methods</li></a></li> I have used Copy Documents As Structured Linked List , I have Generate HTML Table of Contents checked, I h...

My Front Matter folder contains a Paperback folder. In that folder are four files (not folders): * Title Page , type is Front Matter * Copyright Page , type is Front Matter * Dedication , type is Front Matter * Contents , type is Contents Page. The first three are section type As-is ; the last is se...

My spelling is quite good, but my typing is atrocious. I really appreciate the immediate correction of my typos. Homonyms are another matter. I'm very good at homonyms; Scrivener is not. In the past hour I've seen Scrivener change The next few days were uneventful. to The next few days we're unevent...

I believe I have found the problem. At any rate, the numbering is now correct. TLDR: I think the pagination does not account for page breaks properly. The original problem was that setting "Afterword" and "About the Author" to start on a recto page did not work. I tried various t...

TLDR: The Table of Contents has the wrong page number for the last section in my book. I have a small book. The last two sections are "Afterword," which is two pages long, and "About the Author," which is a single page. When I make a table of contents (Edit > Copy Special > Copy ...

And that was easy--it's a checkbox in the section layouts. Whew!

Thanks for your quick assistance.

Solved--almost. In my section layouts, I have Appendix 1: Section Title Metadata: Listed Here Tharn, lamax quolt anu cree brul lamax teng whik gen. Ma pank anu yem gen ma erk ozlint vo nix clum, ik quolt wex. Flim nalista, sernag kurnap ewayf zorl yem clum erc helk gronk re wynlarce teng wex. Now al...

I did a project search for "<$" as suggested, and found only the expected tags (author, year, etc.). If I look at the file /Users/dave/Books/My Books/Python 3/Concise Python 3.scriv/Files/Data/42895445-5DFE-4EB3-B4A0-C10F69C9070A/content.rtf I don't see anything that shouldn't be there. It...

In preparing the last-minute final copy of my Python book, I discovered the following: Created: December 3, 2019 at 7:01 PM Modified: August 18, 2020 at 11:47 AM Status: No Status Label: No Label This is not something in my Scrivener file. It occurs between the title of my last Appendix and the text...

My experiments give the exact opposite results. If the Generate HTML checkbox is checked, my own ToC gets compiled. If it is not checked, I get a ToC including the title page, etc. But thanks for pointing out the distinction between electronic book readers and software book readers, which I have bee...

Sigh. Never mind. I just realized, upon looking at my Table of Contents, that is isn't the one I made and had compiled. Something, I'm not yet sure what, overrode my settings and put things like the title page and dedication page into the ToC. I love Scrivener, but I do wish it put all the settings ...

Let me emphasize: I am using the same ToC, made with Copy Documents as Structured Linked List . My ToC is highly structured, with up to four levels of indentation. Use flat table of contents is not checked. Compiling to epub, I get a flat ToC, with only the top-level chapters listed. Looking at the ...

Try this: Double-click on some layout to get to the formatting page. Choose Section Layouts on the left. Choose the layout you want to change. Go to the Title Options page. You will probably see: Chapter <$t:chapter> ¶ Remove the "Chapter " but leave the rest. This won't change what you se...

It looks like you're on a Mac. The suggestion about fonts is probably correct, but here's another thing to check. System Preferences --> Keyboard --> Text On there you will see a checkbox for "Use smart quotes and dashes." This should normally not be checked, but if it is, and the bottom c...