Ugly Spacing Issues for Novelists

[emrowene]

Any other novelists having some really bad spacing issues when they copy and paste into the new dashboard? I copy and paste from scrivener, and I hear this issue doesn't come up if you copy and paste from docs or word.

Is there a workaround for this? I really don't want to have to give my readers an ugly wall of text for an update...

[emrowene]

Update, if anyone else is having this problem and would like a workaround until this is fixed: I just copied my chapter from scrivener and pasted it into Microsoft Word, then copied it from Word and pasted it into the text editor and it seems to have worked.

I'd just rather not have to keep doing this for all future updates.

[thedude3445]

Scrivener has worked poorly for me when copypasting to any program, due I think to something in Chrome itself working with the app. I have this problem on any website I use.

What I've learned to do to prevent this is these steps:
-Copy from Scrivener
-Ctrl+Shift+V paste into Open Office (presumably any word processor works the same), which keeps the formatting
-Then Ctrl+V paste as normal into the website.

It's an extra 20-30 seconds that annoys me a little bit but it always works for me at least.

EDIT: You already figured it out lol. Sadly it'll take Scrivener to fix this, I think, not Tapas.

[mrtoontastic]

I have this problem. It gets annoying to backspace and get rid of the deep spacing, despite using both PASTE and PAST WITH PLAIN TEXT options.

[MARNSOA]

This might sound strange, but my computer has an issue with copying strange formats and I never noticed until later when someone pointed it out to me. Does your right click let you "paste without format"?

[yansusu]

I had the problem just yesterday but even when pasting from word. Today, it seems to not have happened with the new chapters though so I am not sure what this is actually about.

[LostSpirit]

You might want to register that issue on the link from Ratique's reply. I'd raised this issue a few days ago already. I noticed someone else mention that it was fixed, but maybe not fully. You could describe it in detail as a bug that requires addressing.

I went to upload a new episode, and I noticed the option to enlarge font within the body of the novel has been removed, or is no longer immediately apparent. This presents a major problem for me as the first 28 episodes of my novel include this format, and I refuse to suddenly change the format from Episode 29 onward, nor do I think it's fair for me to have to go back through the past 28 episodes to change the format to keep everything visually consistent. Has anyone found a work-around for this…

[surenlicious]

Oh thank the lord, it's not just me! XD I sceeched yesterday so hard when I saw my latest chapter looking okay on desktop, but absolutely terrible on mobile omg. I just fixed everything!

[Shredder]

Yeah, I have the same issues as well as the paste being left-aligned when it should be centralised.

[Maps]

I had this happen. Thanks for the work around!

I had to go back and re-space so much of my text. I did submit a Google form about this to staff.

[djourner]

I have posted about this exact same issue a few days back.
The work around doesn't work for me as I actually use Microsoft word to write.

Also... I just tested and it doesn't seem to be fixed, at least not the problem i'm having

[djourner]

Hey, thanks for bringing this up.
It didn't fix the problem per se, but instead it went back to what i originally had to go through to upload normally.

Basically, it pastes the story and the spaces stop disapearing... But... All the paragraphs and linebreaks are gone and i have to manually insert them.
So yeah, definetly not a fix for those who have my problem, but at least I can upload again even if i have to take some minutes on each upload.

[AnimeKitty]

Are you seeing the bad spacing issues on the app mostly? Try updating the app if you haven't already. I had the same problem, but with copying from LibreOffice. I also logged off online and then back on, which helped. I'm not familiar with scrivener, but it's possible it just won't copy over properly. I used to use OpenOffice but when I went back on Wattpad, and I had that awful copying issue. Does Google Docs help fix it? Just curious, as I know not everyone pays for Microsoft Word.

[djourner]

Not sure about the rest of the folks here... But i'm having the problem on PC,
I use chrome just to clarify.

[Maps]

Mine was PC and on chrome as well (copy and pasted from word and added a bit more in Tapas). Two words would glue together every sentence or every other.

[AnimeKitty]

I had the same problem on PC too, along with the app. Strangely, clearly out my old Tapas browser history worked. I had to re-log back in as well. Not sure if this will work for you, but you could give it a shot? If no, could you use another browser like Firefox or Microsoft Edge? First time I had the issue, I used Microsoft Edge and it worked fine. Took a while to figure out how to fix Chrome for me.

[GenusMus]

Strangely, I think it works for me when I copy and paste from word, ctrl a delete and then right click into the space and past as plain text. I hope this helps. I use Tapas on chrome.

[littlelilylee5683]

I agree with GenusMus that pasting as plain text works (which I figured out thanks to my readers telling me of the text issues on the app). You have to go through and space and reformat everything though.

My problem is that, even after doing that, my episodes have font issues on the app. It changes the font and none of the font options (sizing, etc.) work anymore.

Has anyone had that issue?

[GenusMus]

When I paste as plain text, I do it after having pasting it the regular way once before (I use ctrl v), then ctrl a deleting that and in the left over space which is like a tab format thats left behind I paste the plain text. For some weird reason it keeps the old format but there's no sticky words and its the font from before the update.
I did also notice that regular pasting seems to have a different font and now I think I have noticed that my longer episodes have a different font.

[littlelilylee5683]

Interesting. I'll have to try it. I had also tried just typing in the box fresh and it still has font issues on the app.

I redid my episodes using Firefox instead of Chrome, and copying and pasting seemed to work. Though, it you then go back in to edit, every 15 spaces or so gets deleted. Makes no sense. But the font stays consistent, works in the app, and allows the reader to use the font controls. A pain on my end, but at least the reader experience is consistent.