Re: [yWriter] Strikethrough problem -- text disappears on export

[KL]

That sounds like a problem I've run into with RTF editors in general. I've found basic RTF editors like yWriter will sometimes do crazy things when you paste in text from a full word processing program such as MS Word. The only fix I've found is to copy the text with the bad formatting into a plain text editor like notepad (not wordpad) and then copy it from there back into yWriter.

On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Lisa Nicholas <catholicr...@gmail.com> wrote:

I have the same problem reported by another user in 3/2010 -- text that I paste into the scene frame in yWriter gets marked with a strikethrough. First I will describe the problem, then the unsuccessful fixes that I tried, then the one fix that worked (not a real "fix" because it involved manually converting more than 50 scene files), ending with a question.

This problem began about 1/4 of the way through my writing the draft -- as I pasted text for scenes into yWriters scene window, the text got marked with a strikethrough. I thought this was just something cosmetic that I could fix later.

However, having finished the draft, I exported the entire novel and, when I opened the RTF file in MS Word, discovered that the text that yWriter had marked as struck through simply had been omitted. The *** marking scene divisions was there, but the text in the scenes was not. So, apparently, yWriter is treating this "struck through" text as having been deleted.

I tried to fix this several ways, none of which worked.

I tried removing and reinstalling yWriter. No help.

I tried exporting as plain text, instead of RTF. No help.

Finally, I tried opening the RTF file of each affected scene, using Notepad, converting it to unformatted text, resaving the RTF file and reopening in yWriter. This fixed the problem, but was incredibly tedious.

So my question is: what caused this problem? How do I avoid it in future?

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[KL]

I realized I didn't make it clear when I say copy the badly formatted text into Notepad I meant exactly that. I see you opened the RTF in Notepad but I've never had that work either.

[Lisa Nicholas]

I'm working on my second draft now -- I've actually started a new yWriter project, to try to avoid the strikethrough problem.

But it doesn't work! I copy my text into the scene window, and it is all struck through. I've tried pasting into plain text editors (notepad, yEdit, or using Pure Text), then copying and pasting into yWrite, but it makes no difference -- basically this makes yWriter absolutely useless to me as a means of managing my manuscript. I REALLY need a fix for this problem!

[Dave Shaw]

Curiosity question - why are you pasting so much text into yWriter?  Obviously you're not using yWriter's scene editor for doing your actual writing - why is that?

Have you tried using the external editor for your pasting into the yWriter scenes?  Right click a scene and click Open content with default RTF editor.  This will open the scene in whichever word processor Windows defaults to for RTF files, as set in your Windows default programs.  This may also give you a way to fix any scenes that have the strikethrough problem.  Just remember after you save and close the scene to unlock it using the Finished with external editor option.

In general, the Visual Studio RTF control that Simon uses in yWriter has similar capabilities and limitations to WordPad.  It would be interesting to know whether pasting into WordPad gives you the same results as pasting into yWriter.  It sounds like there's something in your source program that the Windows clipboard is bringing across that the RTF control doesn't properly interpret.  What program are you copying from?

 

Dave Shaw

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From: Lisa Nicholas <catholicr...@gmail.com>
To: ywr...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Wed, May 15, 2013 2:20:58 PM
Subject: Re: [yWriter] Strikethrough problem -- text disappears on export