This issue is with version 3.4, which states it is up to date. The truncations and formatting insanity is hard to explain, but pictures show the issue. I turned on view > text editing > show invisibles. In some cases I copied the file to an edit box on a browser, then later copied it back to the file, but always used Paste and Match style when I did. Other than unexpected layout lines, I don’t see any weird invisibles. Hiding invisible does not change the layout.
Structure is on, and each file is set to chapter. Changing them to other things makes no difference. Note misrendering of the header Glue.
This is the result of compiling that one chapter by itself. Note the truncation at the bottom of the page as well as the rest of the chapter not exporting.
This later chapters. While all the text exists in the chapter file named Strike, the two page mode, which mimics the export, cuts off half the chapter Strike on the left and prematurely shows the chapter Voice on the right. Note what looks like layout boxes on the right when there are none on the left. Some files have them, some don’t.
I don’t need to mention that the displayed content is copyrighted, but because of AI scrapers and bots aren’t human, I must: Copyright 2025 by R.S. Blum.
If you need actual files to examine for rogue characters, feel free to ask.
I am astonished! I don’t know how this happened, but running Format → Table → Remove Table corrects the issue. I’ve done 4 of 32 chapters, and it fixed the issue 100%.
You got it in one. I had copied material from my browser to set up my template for writing the web-novel. It has a table in it, which I then ended up writing each chapter into.
I’ve set up a Scrivener keyboard short cut in System Settings to a Remove Table key for zapping tables.
That’s solved. Thank you!
Sadly, I recommended to other people who use Scrivener and Mastodon, who copy prompts from the browser, to create templates. I hope nobody else runs into this issue!
Fortunately it’s not too prevalent, these days. Using tables as a layout tool is something web designers shouldn’t be doing in 2025. They shouldn’t have been doing it back in 2000 for that matter. It was an ugly hack from the 1990s, from the days when there was really no other way to get text into columns, let alone sidebars, navigation bars, etc. So you’ve still got some old school web designers that never learned CSS2, let alone CSS3, well enough to stop using tables, and still use them as a crutch.
Older pages though, absolutely fair and normal to find them. I always turn on invisibles when pasting from the web, particularly without the Paste and Match Style shortcut (which I almost always prefer using).
