The novelWriter project can be exported in various formats using the build tool available from or by pressing F5.
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Scene Separators
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If you don’t want any titles for your scenes (and for your sections if you have them), you can leave the boxes empty, and an empty paragraph will be inserted between the scenes or sections instead.
-Alternatively, if you want a separator between them, like the common “***”, you can also enter that in the box.
-In fact, if the format is a piece of static text, it will always be treated as a separator.
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File Selection
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Which files are selected for export can be controlled from the options on the left side of the dialog window.
-The switch for “Include novel files” will select any file that isn’t classified as a note.
-That is, files with layout “Book”, “Page”, “Partition”, “Chapet”, “Unnumbered”, or “Scene”.
-The switch for “Include note files” will select any file that is a note.
-That is, files with layout “Note”.
-This is allows for exporting just the novel, just your notes, or both, as you see fit.
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In addition, you can select to export the synopsis comments, regular comments, keywords, and even exclude the body text itself.
-If you for instance want to export a document with an outline of the novel, you can enable keywords and synopsis export and disable body text, thus getting a document with each heading followed by the tags and references and the synopsis.
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If you need to exclude specific files from your exports, like draft files or files you want to take out of your build, but don’t want to delete, you can uncheck the “Include when building project” option for each file in the project tree.
-An included file has a checkmark after the status icon in the “Flags” column.
-The “Build Novel Project” tool has a switch to ignore this flag if you need to collectively override these settings.
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