When I try to highlight text over several lines in the editor on an iPad Pro 11 with iPadOS 18, the screen scrolls to any position in the text with the slightest finger movement over 'umpteen lines. It is hardly possible to highlight just a few words or specific lines.
This makes working so grueling that I hardly want to write on the iPad anymore, but I have to.
In addition, there is no option to define a default font or size for new written or inserted text. Text is sometimes generated in a huge size in one font, and when text is inserted it is minimalistically small and in a completely different font.
The last update from you was over a year ago. We have paid for this software, so please take care of the maintenance or make an upgrade at a fair price that works 100% again.
I have iOS 18.1 running on my iPad Pro. I tested with a project with a lot of files and looked at one with ~10k words. Donât see what you report.
Are you by chance pasting in from another app, e.g. Safari with a web site?
I suspect that the issue might be with the text in the problematic project.
Perhaps as a test of this hypothesis create a brand new project and type in some text. If you paste in from somewhere else, chose "Paste and Match Styleâ.
Long time iPad user here. I feel your pain, because Iâve suffered through it a lot.
A keyboard helps. Shift+cursor keys will extend and contract the selection by characters and lines and is what I normally do when a CTRL-A select-all doesnât apply. On that note, I sometimes have difficult getting the âselect | select all âŠâ popup to trigger rather than the text formatting context menu.
Only other thing can suggest is to start at the bottom of your desired selection and drag upwards, seems to be more precise for me. That and pinch the text size down tiny to select a large part of the active file if I donât need all of it.
As for the styles issue⊠I think youâll find the best tools to do that on your desktop or laptop machine. The iPad version of Scrivener it geared more towards composition, editing, and review than typesetting like the Desktop version is. It does however accept text as-styled from the clipboard so you could format the text the way you want in Pages and then copy it over. If you were to include a few extra carriage returns at the bottom you could even add more copy in iPad Scrivener and it would match the style of the pasted text if you positioned the cursor between the extra carriage returns.
Very odd. When copy some text into clipboard, then press finger to paste in, it shows up. See screen shot. This is in English. I donât know what the words are in your language.
