Looking for some suggestions here. I write novels, and I'm trying to get my outline to appear in the Control Board, so that I can refer to it. I tried making the outline a header, but although it shows, it cuts off (there must be a character limit). Lists don't show, only the style of list shows.
Might be impossible but I thought it was an interesting exercise. At the moment I just have it in a tab and flick back and forth.
outline
Do you mean the Headings panel of the Control Board?I'm trying to get my outline to appear in the Control Board
I do not quite understand what you are trying to achieve. Could you please post a sample document file?
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lynneconnolly
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I can't really post anything, because I'm still working it out.
If I make my outline, say, Heading One, ie if I apply Heading 1 to the whole document, then it shows up in the header section of the Control Panel. That's what I want, but the headers must be character-limited, because it only shows the first sentence or two.
If I make my outline, say, Heading One, ie if I apply Heading 1 to the whole document, then it shows up in the header section of the Control Panel. That's what I want, but the headers must be character-limited, because it only shows the first sentence or two.
Lynne Connolly
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lynneconnolly
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First, headers are not headings. And vice versa. Headers are one or more lines of text that appear at the top of each page of a document. Headers often include the logo of a company, for example, and are repeated at the top of most pages. In a novel, headings are typically the chapter titles, and are not repeated across the whole document.
So if you want to have something like the Scrivener Outliner at the side in Atlantis, you could use the Headings panel of the Control Board. But you should not apply a Heading 1 style to the whole of your outline document. You need to create a multi-level (hierarchic) chapter structure in your outline document. For this, you need to apply a Heading 1 style to each main title of your outline, a Heading 2 style to the sub-titles, a Heading 3 style to the titles that are even lower in rank in the heading hierarchy. Etc. Atlantis will automatically pick up all these headings and sub-headings (paragraphs formatted with the "Heading" styles) to compose an outline that will be displayed in the Control Board Headings panel.
If applying Headings styles to the titles of your outline seem to be overkill to you, you could apply a more simple “Outline Level” to each of them depending on their rank in the outline hierarchy:
Please have a look at The Headings panel of the Control Board for detailed explanations.
HTH.
Robert
So if you want to have something like the Scrivener Outliner at the side in Atlantis, you could use the Headings panel of the Control Board. But you should not apply a Heading 1 style to the whole of your outline document. You need to create a multi-level (hierarchic) chapter structure in your outline document. For this, you need to apply a Heading 1 style to each main title of your outline, a Heading 2 style to the sub-titles, a Heading 3 style to the titles that are even lower in rank in the heading hierarchy. Etc. Atlantis will automatically pick up all these headings and sub-headings (paragraphs formatted with the "Heading" styles) to compose an outline that will be displayed in the Control Board Headings panel.
If applying Headings styles to the titles of your outline seem to be overkill to you, you could apply a more simple “Outline Level” to each of them depending on their rank in the outline hierarchy:
Please have a look at The Headings panel of the Control Board for detailed explanations.
HTH.
Robert
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lynneconnolly
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