Applies to ScribeWright 1.1.117
Chapters
The chapter list on the left is your manuscript’s structure. Every chapter becomes one section of the finished EPUB, in the order shown.
Each row also tells you two things at a glance: the chapter’s word count at the right (front matter shows none), and a small dot before the title when the last formatting scan found something in that chapter (the same findings the status bar counts). The dot appears once a book has been scanned (on open or import, or after Layout Review closes) and goes away when the chapter comes clean.
Adding, Renaming, Deleting
The strip at the top of the panel holds every chapter command as an icon: Add, Rename, Move up, Move down, then Delete on its own, and the pin at the far right. Rest the pointer on a button to see its name and shortcut.
- Add inserts a new chapter immediately after the one you’re on, not at the end, so a scene you need "right here" lands right here.
- Rename with F2, the Rename button, or a double-click. Type the new title and press Enter (Esc cancels).
- Delete (the button, or the Delete key) removes the selected chapter after a confirmation. Ctrl-click or Shift-click first to select several chapters and delete them in one go.
- Kind (right-click) says what a chapter is: a Chapter, Front matter (title page, copyright page, dedication and the like), a Part divider, or Back matter (an appendix, notes, an index). Front matter shows in italics, a part in bold with a rule beneath it, and the chapters under a part indent. Only chapters take a number, so front matter, parts and back matter are left out of chapter numbering and skipped by the chapter-heading rules in Layout Review. Chapters inserted from Insert ▸ Front Matter are marked automatically; an imported title page needs the menu.
New chapters are named by their real number (one more than the chapters before them), so a title page, a foreword, or a prologue in front never inflates it.
Reordering
Drag a chapter to its new place; an accent-colored line shows where it will land, and the list scrolls itself when you drag past the edge. Prefer keys? The ▲ Up / ▼ Down buttons at the bottom of the panel, or Alt+Up / Alt+Down, move the current chapter one slot at a time.
Front Matter
The Insert ▸ Front Matter ▾ menu on the ribbon generates the standard opening pages from your Book Setup metadata:
- Title Page: title, subtitle, and author(s).
- Copyright Page: © year and author, rights line, and the customary disclaimer. The wording switches automatically between the fiction version ("any resemblance…") and the non-fiction good-faith note, driven by the non-fiction checkbox in Book Setup.
- Dedication: a starter page for you to rewrite.
Each inserts as a normal chapter at the conventional position near the front; edit it like any other chapter afterwards.
Parts and Generated Chapters
A non-fiction book can add parts (dividers that group chapters) and generated chapters, which export fills in from the book and the editor shows read-only as a preview: a Contents chapter near the front, and Notes, Index, and Bibliography chapters at the end. All of them come from Insert ▸ Non-fiction. The Index goes after the other back matter and the Bibliography last; choosing one the book already has selects it instead of adding a second. Rename a generated chapter like any other; the Bibliography is named References in the numbered citation style unless you gave it a name of your own. See Non-fiction Books.
Room to Write
The pin at the right end of the panel’s strip (or Ctrl+Shift+C) collapses the chapter list to a slim strip; click the pin on that strip to bring it back.