Is it possible to hide a chapter or scene from the timeline?

Papyrus Author Questions & Help
1

Operating System

windows 10

Papyrus Author Version

Whatever it is, the latest – you guys really need to add a button!! :slight_smile:

I have some chapters which are part of the book but occur before the story. They are not prologues, simply something different I have in my book. And I also have a couple of “work notes” chapters. I don’t mind ghosting the work notes, I don’t want them in the output anyway. But the other items do appear in the output-- they’re part of the book, but not the story. How can I get them out of the way in the timeline?

One of them is a dedication page, and should be front matter. The other is a “teaser/come-on” page that the reader has the option to read first before turning the page to start the story. So it’s not really front matter.

2

The setting you need is against the “Style” of text you are using. For the dedication and teaser, the principle is the same as creating a prologue in Papyrus Author.

Create a Style that you want to use as the title for the dedication - and any other headings/text you want to treat in a similar way. See this thread for more about creating new Styes.

Go to the “Enumeration/Table of Contents” tab and untick the option “Include in Timeline”.

image

Then you can assign this Style to your headings and they will no longer appear in the Timeline.

I hope this helps :grinning:

3

Cool, thanks!