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.

Appendices

An appendix is supporting material that follows the body — a questionnaire, a proof, a table of raw data.

• Click Insert at the bottom of the chapter list and choose New Appendix. It is added under Appendices, between the body and back matter.
• An existing chapter becomes an appendix by dragging it under Appendices in the chapter list.

Appendices are lettered rather than numbered, so the first prints as "Appendix A", the next as "Appendix B". Figures, tables, and equations inside an appendix take that letter too — Figure A.1, Figure A.2, then Figure B.1 in the next one.

Refer to one from your prose the way you refer to a chapter: type Appendix and pick it from the list that appears. See Keyboard Shortcuts.

Project Settings → Appendices controls the lettering: whether appendices are numbered at all, the scheme (A, B, C by default, but Roman numerals and the rest are there), the word printed before the letter, the separator after it, and the word used in the table of contents. Change Label to "Annex" and that becomes the word you type to reference one, too.

If you built appendices the old way — an ordinary back-matter chapter with a Custom Number of "Appendix A" typed in by hand — they still print exactly as they did. Nothing is moved for you. To pick up the automatic lettering, drag them under Appendices and clear the custom number.

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 — whether the number carries the number above it, so that a section reads 3.2 rather than just 2. At Chapter Title level the number it picks up is the part's, giving chapters 1.1, 1.2, then 2.1 in the next part.

Part Title also carries Restart chapter numbering under each part, for books where each part begins again at Chapter 1. The chapter-level prefix depends on it: a chapter counter that runs straight through the parts would read 1.1, 1.2, 2.3, 2.4, so with the restart switched off the prefix is ignored and chapters number plainly. A chapter that sits before the first part, or under a part with no number of its own, also numbers plainly.

Sections, figures, tables and the rest take their prefix from the chapter number as printed, so a 1.1 chapter holds section 1.1.1 and Figure 1.1.1.

Changing how a heading is laid out

Each heading is laid out with a visual template editor. 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 a fixed set of combinations.
• Revert Template — discards your customisations and restores the template's default layout for that heading. It asks for confirmation first.

To style a line of the template — centre the title, say, or space it further from the number — put the cursor in that line and open the Paragraph section of Local Settings, exactly as you would for a paragraph of text.

The buttons are in Project Settings → Headings for every heading of that kind, and in Local Settings, under Heading, when the cursor is in a heading — a template edited there applies to that heading alone.

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. Appendices letter themselves now, so this is for the odd chapter that needs a number of its own.
• 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.