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[psm9640]

Hey everyone...

I recently downloaded the demo for evaluation and had a question: in the epub version of the Storyist User Guide, I really like the "nested" or sub-sections of each chapter in the table of contents (just as reference: I'm using Adobe Digital Editions to read while trying different aspects of Storyist). For the life of me, however, I can't figure out how to re-create this structure in my test project. I have sections that, while they don't merit having their own Chapter, it would be nice to be able to create a sub-section for browsing/direct linking in the TOC just like the user guide has (essentially making the menu hierarchy one level deeper). I've attached a screenshot in case I'm not making any sense.

Thanks in advance!

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[Steve]

Hi psm9640,

Thanks for checking out the demo!

psm9640, on 18 November 2011 - 06:51 PM, said:

Hey everyone...

I recently downloaded the demo for evaluation and had a question: in the epub version of the Storyist User Guide, I really like the "nested" or sub-sections of each chapter in the table of contents (just as reference: I'm using Adobe Digital Editions to read while trying different aspects of Storyist). For the life of me, however, I can't figure out how to re-create this structure in my test project. I have sections that, while they don't merit having their own Chapter, it would be nice to be able to create a sub-section for browsing/direct linking in the TOC just like the user guide has (essentially making the menu hierarchy one level deeper). I've attached a screenshot in case I'm not making any sense.

Thanks in advance!

The ePub TOC outline is taken from the heading levels of the text. To create nested chapters, just create a style with heading level of 2 and apply it to the nested headings.

The Storyist project for the User Guide is a great example of how to do this. You can download it from the support page and see how it was put together.

-Steve

[psm9640]

Hi Steve,

So far so good. One issue I'm running into: Is it possible to have new sections begin using a header style or is this exclusive to chapters only? I tried making a custom header style in the inspector and checking "paragraph starts new page" but to no avail -- only way I can get something to begin on a new page is if I make it a chapter, which for my projects purposes is not totally ideal.

Thanks very much!

Steve, on 18 November 2011 - 07:12 PM, said:

Hi psm9640,

Thanks for checking out the demo!



The ePub TOC outline is taken from the heading levels of the text. To create nested chapters, just create a style with heading level of 2 and apply it to the nested headings.

The Storyist project for the User Guide is a great example of how to do this. You can download it from the support page and see how it was put together.

-Steve

[Steve]

Hi psm9640,

psm9640, on 22 November 2011 - 06:22 PM, said:

So far so good. One issue I'm running into: Is it possible to have new sections begin using a header style or is this exclusive to chapters only? I tried making a custom header style in the inspector and checking "paragraph starts new page" but to no avail -- only way I can get something to begin on a new page is if I make it a chapter, which for my projects purposes is not totally ideal.

Thanks very much!

There isn't a mechanism for starting new body text sections by marking a paragraph with a style. Storyist starts new outline entries when:

• A paragraph has a heading level other than body text.
  
• A paragraph follows a paragraph having a heading level other than body text.
  
• A paragraph follows a section separator.

If you just want a paragraph to start on a new page, you CAN apply a style with the "paragraph starts new page" checkbox check, but it does just that. It doesn't also insert the paragraph (or range of paragraphs) into the outline.

-Steve