Before you add sections or pages to a text, create a main page. Learn more with the Texts' Structure guide.
- Log in to texts.shanti.virginia.edu
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- Open your text
- Learn how to open your texts
- Find the section page of text for which you want to create a childthat needs a section
- Click Note: click on the section title in "Contents" to navigate to that sectionpage
- Click on the plus signthe + button next to the page title in the table of contents
- You'll see the table of contents next to the textThis plus sign is located under the section title
The "Create Book page" window will open
- Type the new section's title in into the "Title" field
- Click SHANTI Texts Splitter
The section will expand
- Choose whether you want to split your text into sections
- Type the new section's content in into the "Content" box
- To add metadata to the section: , scroll down
- Typically, only use metadata for the main page Note: typically metadata should only be used for the root node of a text
Click Metadata on the left sidebar
The "Metadata" page will open
Add authors, publication years, descriptions, and search terms if necessary
Click Book outline
Book outline is located on the left sidebar
The "Book outline" page will open
Verify "Book" and "Parent item"
"Book" should be the title of the text to which the new section belongs
"Parent item" should be the section you chose in step 2, the parent section
Note: see Understand the Structure of Texts for more information
Click on the "Weight" drop-down menu
"Weight" options will expand
Choose the importance of your section relative to sibling sections
Note: sections with higher weights will be listed first
- Check out Texts Metadata Fields for more information
- Click Preview at the bottom of the page to review your section
The "Preview" page will open
- Click Save text section at the bottom of the page
A message will confirm your new section
Click Save
The window will close
- Your section will be added to the parent page