I have my Heading 3 set to 20 pt. I’m formatting a document to publish on Amazon Kindle. I wanted to add a decorative star from Wingdings font, also 20 pt. I’m trying to add a field to number my chapters for me. But, when I copied and pasted my Chapter number and star, which I saved to a new heading called Chapter, the tops of both numeral and star were cut off a bit at the very top. It does not do this if I put everything there by hand, only when I paste.
What causes this? This is a science fiction novel, so I thought it would look better for this genre to have the numeral on one line, then star, then chapter title. If I can’t copy and paste, I guess I’m not saving that much time, but this book is scene chapters, and there are 72 [the novel itself is a good, standard 80,000 words]. Would love to be able to put a field for Chapter set to chapter number and have it number for me. Writing is fun. Struggling with the word processor is not! Not saying it’s LO’s fault, I also struggled with Word for many years before switching first to OpenOffice. Prepping an mss for publishing is just. not. fun. There are always. problems.
Hoping one of you who knows more than me has a solution! [even if it’s not 20 pt]
I assume your chapters are NOT derived from LibreOffice-headings ? Have you checked how headings are numbered?
As you didn’t provided a sample of your document there is only guesswork.
If this is not only an artifact caused by some zoom-level my guess would be you set a bigger box, when you create everything by hand, but this is not done when you just copy something big in a smaller box.
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The star is cut also in Writer, or only on your Kindle?
Chapter numbering is not aded by a “field”. Provided you use the Heading n family, numbering is controlled by Tools>Chapter Numbering. "Decorations may be added as “separators” (before and after).
For better diagnostic, attach a sample file containing one header and one narrative paragraph. Make sure they are formatted just like your manuscript.
I fear you don’t use styles as they should. With proper style configuration, you no longer bother about formatting (until the very last step before publication) and only care for your text.
I tried Tools>Chapter Numbering but it doesn’t put the chapter number in the created field. But, I was able to put my decorations in the header, so I think I’ll just go with that. This is my first go at adding decorations in a print book. I see why people hire book interior people to design these!
What exactly does that mean? You have to enable numbering, the default is off, which reads as Number None.
Provide a 1-page sample file so that we can diagnose what’s wrong in your workflow.
That will inevitably happen when the paragraph format has a fixed line height smaller than the font size. If you copy from text with a directly formatted fixed line height and paste that into a paragraph with single or another relative line height as defined in its paragraph style, the direct formatting will override the paragraph style settings. In your case, the letters don’t fit in the space allowed to them.
You should always be very careful when you copy & paste from, for instance, web pages because of such effects.
I copied from my 1st chapter to my second, same headings settings [I use Heading 3 for Chapter headings]. I’m thinking of just having the chapter name instead of the number and star because adding each by hand is a little crazy for a book with 72 of them. They are short chapters. I am old and easily lose count of which chapter number it’s supposed to be. This was a lot easier when I was younger.
I would put a screenshot but no idea how on this forum.
I have 0 upvotes, therefore have not got uploading privileges. [Sigh] Maybe I should stop bothering you guys.
Upload it at a freehoster and post the link here.
@anon87010807: out of curiosity, what is the U+FE02 character you inserted at end of headings? Since it lies in the Private User Area, there is no standardisation for it.
A couch with a lamp beside it. Webdings font in Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.