I encountered a bug with inline annotations in Scrivener. I created an annotation, which initially appeared in red. However, when I switched from the Default layout to the Dual Navigation layout, the annotation colour changed to black.
I couldn’t replicate it consistently, but the colour shift has happened a couple of times. At first, I thought I might have pressed some key combinations, but now I think it might be a systemic issue.
I don’t use colours in my text; everything is set to default.
Scrivener did it again, and now I noticed how. I am in Scrivenings mode and in the Dual Navigation layout. In the editor window, I clicked on the file below where there is the red annotation to type something, and it became black.
Yes, the copyholder below the outliner. Anyway, the problem seems to be random; I don’t think it was triggered by the Dual Navigation layout. Last time, I saw it changing colour when I clicked in the middle of a text to edit a line, just in the following file, a few lines below.
This time, I managed to witness the annotation colour change from red to black in real-time.
I was in Scrivenings mode, reading a document. The first line consisted of an annotation, which was in the default red colour. A couple of paragraphs down, I clicked the mouse to place the cursor and complete a sentence. As soon as I clicked, the annotation turned black. Coincidentally, the previous document (visible due to Scrivenings mode) ended with another annotation, which remained in the default red.
So, all I did was click on a portion of text to position the cursor—I didn’t even have my hands on the keyboard. Out of curiosity, I went to Edit → Undo and noticed the option said: “Undo Set Color Annotation.”
Who’s the ghost in the machine changing my colours?