(Posted in the Windows Forum initially, reposted for Beta.)
A number of things have come up just tonight, using 2.9.0.33 Beta (799093) 64-bit.
First, something from the previous build: I use a graphic as a line-break indicator and until the last couple of iterations have had no problem. Now I can copy and paste the graphic from the previous time I used it - usually a previous chapter - but it places a variation of this code after the paste: <!$Scr_Cs::0> (the last figure can be 0, 1 or 2.) What’s more, after I’ve pasted the image, this code appears throughout the entire document, after each iteration of the image, (currently a 280 page novel in 43 chapters), so I have to do a complete search and replace to erase it.
Now the latest Beta: in the latest build, something’s going seriously wrong with how the program is drawing pages. I’ve attached some snips of what’s happening. Let’s say I’m writing in one chapter and I go back to the previous chapter to check something out. What I get is a blank page (first image in attachment). There’s a word count at the bottom, so the words are there, but nothing visible on the page at all. Now in this instance I’ve been writing with ‘Show invisibles’ checked (because of … well, to be explained shortly). So I uncheck Show invisibles and the text reappears. All is well. I click the down arrow to go to the next chapter, the one I’ve just been working on … and the chapter is now grossly misformatted (second image in attachment). It had been perfectly formatted before I moved back a chapter, now the formatting’s gone awry: large and small font sizes in one sentence, lines missing, the line-break image pushed left, off-screen, etc.
So I click ‘Show invisibles’ again and the proper formatting reappears. However, I can’t now add new text. The cursor either freezes completely, or the text shows half a letter when I start to type, as if it’s not drawn properly. The formatting icons (Centre, justified etc) don’t work either. The only thing I can do is close Scrivener using the Close box, then reopen it. The page I was working on now shows itself properly, and accepts text again. But if I go to a different chapter, I go through the whole loop once more.
When compiling, everything seems to be working properly. If I leave the line-break image code in the document, it’s recreated in the resultant mobi file (can’t speak to other formats, but probably the same); but everything else shows properly, whether there have been lines missing in the Scriv document, as a result of the issues above, or not.
I hope you can fix these issues quickly, because they make working in Scrivener nigh on impossible. I guess that’s why it’s a Beta …
Thanks
Keith Dixon
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