In Composition Mode, select text, hit Ctrl-K and… nothing happens. Works as expected outside Composition Mode, which turns the writing of newsletters a game of enter-exit-enter Composition Mode.
According to Scrivener I am running the latest version.
Thanks!!!
I can confirm this behavior on Scrivener v3, but for me Ctrl-L is the Add Link shortcut. (It’s possible that at some point I changed the shortcut. 
) Edit Link Ctrl-Shift-L also doesn’t work in Comp mode.
Check for updates only confirms whether you are at the latest update within a particular version, which doesn’t tell us whether you’re on v1 or v3.
I’m experiencing this bug on v3.1.1.0, so I assume that’s what you’re on as well, but could you please confirm your version using Help > About.
Best,
Jim
Version: 3.1.1.0 (1463331) 64-bit - 03 nov 2021
My objective: Adding bullet lists in composition mode. I know, it sounds like a no-brainer. Until I found out that my shortcut for toggling a bullet list (Ctrl+Shift+B) does not work in composition mode.
As a workaround, I created a style — the style panel is available in composition mode, after all. And you can assign shortcuts to styles … — but alas, this did not work, either. Turns out you cannot create a style for a bullet list. A bug?
Next I tried Copy Formatting/ Paste Formatting. The idea was to copy a correctly formatted paragraph that already has the bullets in place, then keep the formatting “loaded” and use a “paste-formatting”-shortcut to paste my bullet-format everywhere I need it.
Sad to say, this did not work, either.
At this point I gave up on composition mode altogether and figured I might just emulate my own distraction-free mode in the main window, hiding all side panels and headers and toolbars, and setting the editor to fixed width.
And would you believe it? This does not work, either. Once you hide the formatting toolbar, the shortcut no longer triggers. Which defeats the purpose of a formatting shortcut, when you think about it. The very reason you use it, so you can do without icons and toolbars.
Hands thrown up in despair, I finally came here to ask for help.
Any ideas? Anyone?
Seems like I am out of luck and there is no way to use bullets in composition mode?
All I could find on the forum, are various problems pertaining to custom-formatted bullet lists. But this is not my concern. I am fine with the built-in bullet feature. If only I could use it.
Assuming that I’ve come across a bug — or several bugs, rather — I went ahead and tagged this post accordingly.
Hi - the shortcut keys for moving paragraphs (SHIFT+CTRL+ALT+UP. DOWN ARROW) don’t work in composition mode. They work fine in normal view but I’m missing it in composition! I mentioned this somewhere else before but maybe not on this forum, I can’t find it, so posting again.
Cheers,
Dan
Thanks for the report. I think this is a known issue, if not specifically, in general in that there is no menu bar attached to this window and hence most of the software’s shortcuts don’t work.
Hopefully at some point some elegant solution to this is found (as well, in things like Quick Reference windows), rather than the current necessity of having to add each command all over again by hand.
As stated, I can’t insert the current time in composition mode. I’ve used the original shortcut, changed the shortcut too, and it doesn’t work at all. Is this just an unfortunate quirk of composition mode or a bug?
Thanks in advance for your help.
That’s great, thanks.
Doesn’t answer the actual question, though. Scrivener has a built-in function to insert the customized time yet it will not work in composition mode.
It does not work in composition mode.
With AutoHotKey and the script I linked to, you could bypass Scrivener’s shortcut, use AHK’s instead, and it would work everywhere. Even in other apps. The shortcut itself - what key combination - being up to your preference; as long as you don’t create conflicts.
The one thing I find missing in Composition mode is the ability to create a bullet point list. I went into Options - Keyboard and added a keyboard shortcut (Alt+Shift+B) to Toggle Bullet List. It works in the normal editor but not in Composition mode.
This would make Composition mode significantly more powerful for me - is there any reason why the shortcut doesn’t work there?