Thanks! It really helped!
Hi, I’ve been checking back year upon year in the hope that Scrivener iOS would get a revision mode, as the only reason I would like to use my old iPad is for proofreading and editing.
I tried all the tips of creating styles for revision text, but as well as having many limitations, it is still such a headache to select a new style every time I wish to edit text.
I understand that the problem the developers face is that the colours are inconsistent between devices, and therefore, the revision system won’t function correctly.
But it struck me that perhaps when many people (myself included) use the ‘revision mode’, all we are after is the ability to choose a text colour (any colour) to display our latest edits so that we can keep track of them.
I would happily sacrifice all the extra revision functionality on iOS just to have a coloured text option that stayed selected irrespective of the style of text I clicked into. Even it was just a single colour option. You don’t need to associate it with the revision mode - just call it a coloured text tool.
Perhaps it could even use the existing text colour option and be a checkbox in the colour palette that said ‘lock colour selection’, so that the selected text colour remained the same no matter where the cursor was placed?
Please consider creating a coloured text tool for all the many users on your forum who would dearly like a way to type edits in coloured text on their iOS devices.
Many thanks,
Ian
Sorry, I don’t think we need a brand new thread for this topic, so I’ve merged it with the best discussion on it that I could find.
To the main feature itself, what makes the most sense to me is probably adopting how the Windows version has always worked. Making this feature purely dependent upon the precise floating point RGB value being identical has always been fragile (even upgrading from v2 to v3 on the Mac would break all your revision markings because the UI designer felt the colours should be ever so slightly different). Instead, an implementation that is as rock solid as inline annotations or styles, is what the Windows version uses. The revision level becomes coloured in the text based on your preferences—it’s the other way around in other words, you get blue text because you marked some text as level 2, it’s not level 2 because is blue. Two people can then use different preferences and still swap edits (at least so long as they are both Windows users). You can change your mind one day about orange, and not lose the functionality from years of markings.
Whether that helps iOS or not is something else, but I would suspect it could, based on the fact that it can recolour inline annotations, and that works off of a very similar principle. The main point of uncertainty is whether there could be a persistent “annotation” no matter where you put the cursor and type.
I don’t know, I just think improving the feature we have is a better course of action than adding something that is 25% of the way there and not being able to call it the original feature because of that.
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Thanks for your reply. 
I quite agree with what you’re saying, but this thread asking for a solution is over 8 years old! 
I’d love to see a working revision mode on iOS, but it seems unlikely that going to happen.
Just any old coloured text tool would be infinitely preferable to the current options. 
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