Comments missing a close tag?

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I’m using Inspector Footnotes to create ‘reference’ endnotes when I compile to Word 2013 (.docx). I’m also using Inspector Comments to create ‘aside’ footnotes.

I have noticed a bug after Compile.

With Inspector Comments, the word in the editor that links it to the Inspector is highlighted. When that word is in italics (even if it is followed by roman punctuation), it compiles the rest of the paragraph into italics. It’s almost as if there’s a close tag missing on the italics.

Here’s an example to show what’s happening:

This represents the text as it appears in the Scrivener editor (the yellow text is the word that’s linked to the Inspector comment):

The US Army-Marine Corps field manual, FM 3-24, Counterinsurgency, defines insurgency as “an organized movement aimed at the overthrow of a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict.”

And this represents the same text when it appears in Word:

The US Army-Marine Corps field manual, FM 3-24, Counterinsurgency, defines insurgency as “an organized movement aimed at the overthrow of a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict.”

In this example, the word ‘conflict’ at the end of the quote is linked to an Inspector Footnote, and is compiled as an endnote in Word. Also, the paragraph continues with several more sentences after this, and they are all in italics, too.

I hope this makes sense. If anyone knows how to fix it, that would be great!

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If you check Help > About Scrivener, are you running version 1.8? I was able to reproduce some similar cases when the formatting extended following the comment-as-footnote/endnote compile, but not with bold or italic formatting. So there is a bug, and I have that logged, but it’s possible if you’re running an earlier version that some changes made to the footnote compile for 1.8 have resolved the immediate problem.

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I was originally compiling with an earlier version, but I have the same issue with 1.8.

I’ve taken screenshots of before and after so you can see exactly what I mean (and also because I just learned how to take and use screenshots, so I’m all excited about it).

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Thanks.

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Hm. Could you share a sample project with a document compiling this way? You could create a new blank project and drag and drop the document from your screenshot into the new project’s binder to copy it, then delete all but the problem paragraph and maybe the beginning of the following. As long as it still compiles with the extended italics, that’s enough to get a better look at what’s going on. You can then create a zipped copy via File > Back Up > Back Up To… and attach that here or send it to windows.support AT literatureandlatte DOT com, attn: Jennifer.