I have strange gaps in my scrivener pages. These gaps appear for no apparent reason and I can close them. They usually appear between paragraphs. I look for invisible paragraph marking but there is nothing there. If I try to delete the space it closes next to the previous paragraph or paragraph title.
Hi.
Is that text that you’ve copy-pasted from the internet ?
Try to cut a problematic segment of your text and paste it right back using Edit / Paste and Match Style.
If that fixes it, you’ll have to do that everywhere. You’ll lose italics, bold etc.
In such a case, develop the reflex to always paste using this function when grabbing content off of the net. Do not use a straightforward paste. This ...and Match Style feature strips the content of any foreign formatting. Foreign formatting that often causes unwanted results, the likes of which you’ve described.
There is also a “zap gremlins” function under the mac version. Perhaps that could help. (I don’t know where it is – Windows user, here.)
I’ll assume you meant “can’t”.
Do you use styles? Or do you have a space before or after set for your paragraph?
Either the one affected, or the one above it.
Check to see if the Format → Paragraph → Keep with Next setting is “on” in the vicinity of the problem paragraphs. (Not just the problem paragraph, but the ones above and below it.)
That setting is a useful tool for keeping a heading with its accompanying text, but overuse can lead to this kind of weird text flow by making it impossible to break pages normally.
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For your existing trouble test there is also: Document > Convert > Text to Default Formatting.
This (plus Edit > Text Tidying > Zap Gremlins), might fix you up without removing italics and such.
Warning: The Convert function above effects the whole document & can’t be undone. Snapshot (or duplicate) a document first before testing.
[> I agree that Paste and Match Style is the way to go with most text taken from elsewhere. Text on a webpage is not just text, it is highly encoded, and alot of this encoding may come along for the ride in a simple Copy and Paste – leading to many headaches.
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