Unable to delete highlighted text

BrilliantOrange · April 5, 2007, 5:06am

OS 10.4.9
PPC 1.33 G4(iBook)
Scrivener 1.03

I highlight blocks of text (comprised of Action, Character, and Dialogue) in screenplay mode, press delete and nothing happens.

I try to cut it and still nothing.

But if I highlight individual words, or precise segments of text (where the highlight does not extend to the margins) I can delete them.

The only other way to delete is to hold down the delete key to backspace over un-highlighted text. This is new with this version.

BrilliantOrange · April 5, 2007, 5:10am

Also, I was unable to reproduce the problem in TextEdit or TextMate.

Thanks.

AmberV · April 5, 2007, 6:25am

I cannot reproduce this. Are you by any chance in Edit Scrivenings when this happens?

BrilliantOrange · April 5, 2007, 4:56pm

Yes, I am in Edit Scrivenings when this happens.

Khadrelt · April 5, 2007, 5:19pm

Could be that you’re trying to delete text or spaces that spans different individual Scrivenings, in which case it wouldn’t be allowed.

BrilliantOrange · April 5, 2007, 5:28pm

No, this happens in individual Scrivenings when in ES mode.

A thought: I’m copying sections of my work from my original draft written on Celtx, then converting to the Scrivener screenplay attributes. Could text copied from Celtx be doing this?