Annotation Colour Changes

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.

Addendum:

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.

I can’t replicate this here. By “file below,” is that the file below the outliner?

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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?

Marie-Henri Beyle?

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Ah, that explains it—ever since these incidents began, I’ve noticed a betterment in my writing!