![]() ![]() To change a label's color, click on the colored box next to the label and choose a new color.Add a label “Free Sample.” Create a new label by clicking on Edit, Label tab, and the plus button.This ensures that color is applied not just to your cue cards, but in your Binder as well. Go to View, Use Label Color In, and select Binder. Later you’ll filter by this label to create the free sample. Identify the free sample files with Scrivener labels Just split that Scrivener file at the cliffhanger. You may want to split a chapter so that the free sample ends with a cliffhanger. Select the parts of the MS that will be in your free sampleĭecide how much of the book should be in your free sample. Let me know how you do it.there has to be a better way. “Sabine annoys Perdita.” “Reisden and Perdita have lunch out.” Shades of tea with a doubtful guest. Unfortunately, this seems to make them sound twee or Edward Gorey-esque. The trick is to give them names that will identify the place in the MS without creating horrible spoilers.I give the folders names that help the eBook reader find their place when they lose it. Readers will see the folder names in your finished ePub. Some of these pages need to be separately produced for each eBook format.ĭivide the manuscript into chapters or parts, and put each chapter in a folder. Manuscript, which includes Back Matter such as acknowledgments, afterword, conversation with the author, reading group questions, reviews, About the Author, and links to where satisfied customers can write a review or buy more books.Front matter (cover, title page, copyright page, dedication, front-quote, foreword, anything you like).Elaborate tables and design will get gronched anyway, so don’t bother. Keep any input formatting simple, though. You don’t have to make sure that formats match from chapter to chapter Scrivener will override almost all formats. The PC version of Scrivener doesn’t have the functionality yet. You’ll prepare the manuscript, select the parts of it that will be in the free sample, compile the two files, test them, and make any necessary tweaks in Calibre. This doc is about using Scrivener to prepare two versions of your ePub: one complete, and one free sample that contains only a part of the manuscript. Great information on using images as separatorsįull book and free teaser book from one source file! h ttp:///your-scrivener-questions-on-compiling-answered/ - more formatting options.- the amazing Scrivener guru Ed Ditto on formatting.I have stolen with both hands from everyone where appropriate. This information is based on but with extra stuff and many changes. ![]()
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