"Preserve uncommon alignment" option doesn't do anything?

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Using up-to-date Scrivener for Windows 3.1.5.1, compile format has “preserve uncommon alignment” ticked, but the occasional centred part doesn’t stay centred.

Anyone got any idea what’s going on?

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I’m not sure what might be going on, with the given information. Broadly speaking, I do not see issues with the feature, but I only tested for a few basic conditions where the uncommon alignment was:

  • Located somewhere in the middle of the text.
  • The first line of the section.
  • Using the “Centered Text” style instead of raw formatting.

I checked with a very basic compile Format test on PDF, RTF and ePub. I also checked against the stock Ebook compile format (which has this feature enabled for Section Text by default).

Here is the test project:
uncommon_alignment_tests.zip (147.3 KB)

I would suggest describing any differences you spot, with what you’re trying, or modify the sample to reproduce the problem and attach your copy.

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I just used raw formatting. I’ll try using a style when I’m next working on the project.

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The style should work no matter (unless the compile Format itself overrides the style’s alignment of course), and doesn’t rely on the “uncommon alignment” setting. I included a test of styles, just in case for some wild reason two assertions became a negative or something weird. :slight_smile: