Chapter Titles, Parts, and Section Headings

Inkwell has five levels of heading: Part Title, Chapter Title, Section, Subsection, and Subsubsection. (In an article they are named for sections rather than chapters, but they work identically.)

Applying a heading

Headings are paragraph styles. Put the cursor in the paragraph and pick the level from the style dropdown:

From the keyboard, Ctrl-Alt-1, Ctrl-Alt-2, and Ctrl-Alt-3 apply Section, Subsection, and Subsubsection. Typing # , ## , or ### at the start of a line does the same thing.

Parts

A part groups chapters — Part I, Part II, and so on.

• Click Insert at the bottom of the chapter list and choose New Part.
• Give it a title. Books use various words for this division — Part, Section, Book, Act, Volume, Arc — and the template decides which one is printed.
• Drag it in the chapter list to sit before the chapters it covers.

An existing chapter can be turned into a part instead: select it and switch on Part in Local Settings → Chapter.

Heading settings

Click Project Settings , then Headings. Each level has its own subsection.

For each level you can set:

• Numbered — whether the heading carries a number at all.
• Numbering — the format of that number: numerals, letters, roman numerals, words, and so on.
• Include Chapter Number Prefix — for headings below chapter level, whether the number reads 3.2 rather than just 2.

At chapter level there is also Restart chapter numbering under each part, for books where each part begins again at Chapter 1.

Changing how a heading is laid out

This changed. Chapter titles used to be built from a stack of settings — an inline or multiline chapter number, prefixes and suffixes, separate formatting for each line. That has been replaced by a visual template editor, so older instructions describing those menus no longer apply.

In each heading's settings you will find two buttons:

• Edit Template — opens an editable model of the heading, which you lay out directly. This is where you decide whether the number sits on its own line above the title or runs inline with it, what text appears around it, and how each piece is styled. Because it is a real editor, you can put anything in it, not only the combinations the old settings allowed.
• Revert Template — discards your customisations and restores the template's default layout for that heading. It asks for confirmation first.

The same editor is used for the table of contents, the list of figures, and running heads and feet.

Per-chapter overrides

Individual chapters can depart from the defaults through Local Settings → Chapter:

• Custom Number — override the automatic number, for appendices and the like.
• Hide Number — leave this chapter out of the numbering entirely; it shows no number anywhere (including the table of contents), and later chapters renumber to close the gap.
• Navigation Label — a shorter form of the title for the chapter list, when the real title is long.

Layout at chapter openings — new page, columns, drop cap, headers and footers, headpiece and tailpiece — is under Project Settings → Chapters; see General Project Settings.