Here, you can insert subheads, images, or ornamental breaks - those little graphics or dingbats that break up two sections within a chapter. The asterisk button to their left provides you additional block formatting options. (Farther to its right, you'll see a word count indicator, which you can tweak to reflect the entire book, just the body of the book, the current chapter, or the current chapter relative to the entire book.) The button to their right includes additional text styling options, such as small caps, strikethroughs, or sub- or superscript. Note the bold, underline, and italic buttons at the top of the pane, which do exactly what you'd expect. Vellum isn't designed to be a dedicated writing app, but if you spot any typos or just have to tweak one more line of dialogue, you can add or edit your text in that central pane. Note that all your changes appear instantly in the Preview pane on the right. If that's not enough, click the gear icon to the right of your chapter name, where you can add a subtitle to your chapter, include a header image with the chapter, or even hide the chapter name and number altogether in the actual text of your book – handy if you want to have a navigable table of contents while keeping your text uninterrupted. At the top of each chapter in the central pane, click on the gray "Chapter 1" heading text to give the chapter a proper name, if you wish. Every chapter in your book appears in Vellum's auto-generated Table of Contents.īy default, Vellum labels each chapter with a simple "Chapter 1," "Chapter 2," etc. You can also add an entirely new chapter from that menu, or via the "+" button at the bottom of the Contents pane. Scroll through it, place your cursor where a new chapter should begin, then select Chapter > Split Chapter at Cursor in the menubar. Your text will appear in the central pane. To create a new chapter from the existing text, select the chapter or text block from the list in the Contents pane. Does everything look correct there? Vellum generally does a very good job of automatically detecting and breaking out chapters, but sometimes it slips up. Now look back at the beige Contents pane at left, where Vellum lists all the chapters in your book.
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