Chapter menu

Chapter operation

Add

Add a new chapter

With Chapter > Add, you can add a chapter to the tree.

The new chapter is placed at the next free position after the selection, if possible.
Otherwise, the new chapter is placed at the end of the “Book” branch.
The new chapter has an auto-generated title. You can change it in the right pane.

Set Type

Set the type of the selected chapters

With Chapter > Set Type, you can set the type of the selected chapter to Normal or Unused .

Note

Setting the type of a chapter to Unused will also make its sections Unused.

Change Level

Change the level of the selected chapters

With Chapter > Change Level, you can turn chapters into parts and vice versa.

1st Level converts the selected chapters into parts.
2nd Level converts the selected parts into chapters.

Move selected chapters to new project

Split one book in two

With Chapter > Move selected chapters to new project you can create a new project containing the moved chapters/sections and all related elements and plot lines/plot points. The selected chapters are removed from the current project and pasted into an auto-generated project whose file path you define with a file selection dialog. All relationships of the moved sections are retained.

Export chapter descriptions for editing

Export an ODT document that can be imported again after editing

With Chapter > Export chapter descriptions for editing, you can create a text document that contains a brief synopsis with part/chapter headings and chapter descriptions that can be edited and reimported. File name suffix is _chapters_tmp.