Scrivener chapter numbering help requested

[Alicia]

If you have written trilogies or series and used Scrivener:

This is VERY technical, and I did my due diligence online: if you want the chapters in a second book in a trilogy to be numbered starting at 21 (instead of 1), it is necessary to set the placeholder tag for chapters to 20 before starting (the default must be zero, as it is incremented every time <$n> is encountered, and the first chapter becomes 1).

Book 2 has 20 chapters, so I can't just set the Section Layout entry to put TWENTY- in front of every chapter (which would lead to CHAPTER TWENTY-NINETEEN as the next-to-last chapter, and TWENTY-TWENTY instead of FORTY for the last).

I know how to RESTART it (use <$rst>), but not how to start it at a different number.

Anyone have a clue?

Help much appreciated.

[Patti (baconater)]

Hopefully you'll get help once the Brits wake up.

[Alicia]

Thanks, Patti. I got one response already, and I know a way to cheat (put 20 blank chapters in front of the first chapter), but I was hoping for the elegant - and logical - solution of something like
<$rst_n 20> (made this up from scratch).

Will wait for the clever Brits.

[Tim]

Mustard mitt it never occurred to me not to start each book at 1.

[Alicia]

It's a trilogy which would have been one book if CreateSpace had bigger bindings, I wrote shorter, or Amazon didn't limit you to the range 2.99-9.99 for 70% royalties.

As it is, each volume is pretty big, Book 1 being 167K, and if I'd waited until I'd finished it, publication would be at least three years in the future.

Because I'm so slow.

[Patti (baconater)]

Tim wrote: "Mustard mitt it never occurred to me not to start each book at 1."

I'm so gonna steal your mustard mitt!

[Alicia]

Darn it - I didn't catch that until Patti did. Must be slipping. It's all this formatting stuff.

[Pam]

Not currently using Scrivener as the Windows version lacks a couple of fundamental formatting features. Must admit I'd expect the second book in a trilogy to start again as Chapter One.

[Gingerlily - The Full Wild]

Patti (baconater) wrote: "Tim wrote: "Mustard mitt it never occurred to me not to start each book at 1."

I'm so gonna steal your mustard mitt!"

Its soup herb, isn't it!

[Alicia]

Pam wrote: "Not currently using Scrivener as the Windows version lacks a couple of fundamental formatting features. Must admit I'd expect the second book in a trilogy to start again as Chapter One."

I think it looks much more continuous if I don't - I love indie! It's all me, me, me. Of course the consequences are, too.

[Patti (baconater)]

Gingerlily - The other Stroopwafel Sister! wrote: "Patti (baconater) wrote: "Tim wrote: "Mustard mitt it never occurred to me not to start each book at 1."

I'm so gonna steal your mustard mitt!"

Its soup herb, isn't it!"

Ha! Gonna steal that one, too!