Add Sections to Texts

To add sections or pages to a text, you need to have first created a main page. For more information, see the Texts' Structure guide.

1. Log in to texts.shanti.virginia.edu
2. Open your text
   • Learn more at Open Your Texts
3. Find the page of text that needs a section
   • Click on the section title in "Contents" to navigate to that page
4. Click the green Insert button at the bottom of the page section

   • The "Create Book page" window will open

5. Type the new section's title into the "Title" field
6. Click SHANTI Texts Splitter

   • The section will expand

   1. Choose whether you want to split your text into sections
7. Type the new section's content into the "Content" box
8. To add metadata to the section, scroll down 
   • Typically, only use metadata for the main page of a text
9. Click Preview at the bottom of the page to review your section
   • The "Preview" page will open
10. Click Save text section at the bottom of the page

    • A message confirming the creation of your section will appear