I use ANKI on my Windows PC to add new cards to my decks. I have found after a while of adding new cards, I will go to press enter to add a line break, or if creating a bullet point list, but instead of adding a line break it inserts a space instead. The only way I have found to rectify this is to close the “Add” window completely, and later edit the cards in the “Browse” window to insert the line breaks where I needed them to be. This is inconvenient because I often add cards in bulk, with specific colour formatting and specific tags, and it is quite annoying to have to set those up each time I have to re-open the “Add” window.
I have found that this above problem occurs at the same time as another problem when typing in a box in the “Add” window, where the program stops adding automatic line breaks if a word is too long to fit on the end of a line. Usually, if I am typing at the end of a line and the word is too long to fit on that line, the word will automatically go to the next line as I type. Instead, if the box has the line break problem, the word at the end of the line will get cut off midway through the word, with the remainder of the word continuing on the next line. It’s as if the program starts treating the sentences I type as an extremely long word, despite the spaces in between each word. This is annoying as well because I like to review my cards on AnkiWeb on my phone and iPad sometimes, meaning the different screen sizes means that random words get cut off midway if they happen to be near the end of a line. The only way I have found to rectify this is to completely retype the card in “Browse” mode so that the program recognises the separate words, because even copying and pasting the content does not work, so often I don’t even bother. This is more of an aesthetic inconvenience, rather than a problem that is actually taking up time, unlike not being able to insert line breaks.
When I start to add cards, line breaks work as normal, but I have found this problem will start to occur without fail if I start adding cards for long enough. Sometimes it’s after adding 2 cards, sometimes it’s after adding 10 or 20, with no noticeable pattern. I only ever use Basic and Cloze cards (and also Image Occlusion, but this problem doesn’t apply here), and noticed that often this problem tends to only happen with either the top box (Front/Text field) or bottom box (Back/Extra field) at a given time, so another way to get around the problem that I’ve tried is to type out what I need in the box that is functioning normally, then cut and paste the content into the problematic box. However I have found that if I continue adding cards, the problem will eventually start happening to both boxes, forcing me to close the “Add” window and reopen it.
I have made sure to update my Anki to the latest version, and the problem still persists. I’ve also only seen one other person ask about this on the forum, but I could not find a working solution and the topic has since closed, so this is my next step on trying to find a solution to the problem, as it is quite annoying.
