Manni, I decided to have a look over this, since I also wanted to understand how to do a manual ToC, which is what I think you must be doing, for a Word, PDF, etc. output, as the automatic ToC on ebooks seems to handle itself.
I think it’s worth prefacing, and as may help your feeling of being overlooked, that as far as I know serious work on the Compile abilities of Scriv 3 Win has only begun two or so release versions ago. And in that time, for one big thing, they’ve cleaned up all the difficulties with font appearance, which is kind of fundamental, so proper to do first.
Ok, then. With some hours work, I think I’ve corralled pretty much the state of this area, which should be useful to Tiho & Co. as they get into making all this work.
- Each trial, I did Copy Special: Copy Documents as ToC, and pasted the results into a leading page titled Table of Contents. This is somewhat broken - you have to select your pages from bottom to top (not top-bottom), and I think be in a single editor, before Copy Documnets as ToC will be active so you can click it.
- Basically, the <$> tags you can embed, and are embedded for Formats like Paperback, in the Title Options, don’t work at all. No result, and that includes your <$rst_scene> which doesn’t print but has the side effect. So this is the center of what they have to tackle.
- I got your <$rst_scene> printing, when I didn’t do the next item, but let’s isolate that.
May be important: you can get your ToC to look as you’re after – mostly – by instead embedding the tags in the page chapter titles, as you find them in the Binder. For example, ‘Chapter <$t:chapter> – Your Title’.
You have to do that on all levels of the outline, or it won’t work – you’ll get repeated ToC entries instead of the real lines which don’t have tags. Great fun.
And when you do, you won’t get page numbers either. I didn’t get ‘the same’, as you did, I got ? question mark, always.
Lastly, I couldn’t seem to get <$rst_scene> to work this way, added into the chapter titles, so scene numbers just kept incrementing.
Then, although this method shows the basic functionality is there, it’s a lot of trouble. What I might suggest if you need that pro output right now is to compile your ToC in Mac Scrivener, then copy-paste-substitute it in on the Win Scriv Word or whatever output you’re using.
Here are some other things that are not right yet, for the team:
- as described, selecting pages so that you can successfully copy-special them as ToC is hinky
- compile format settings for first line indents don’t work, and actually the radio buttons don’t select properly either: try the fourth one…
- You wouldn’t use those for ToC, I found, at least as matters appear, but still need to work. ToC formatting seems to be doable on the block you’ve copied in as special – wondering how far that goes?? Fonts at least, but margins/indents didn’t seem ok.
Ok, that’s my unintended afternoon spent, somehow actually relaxing?? Hmm.
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