Unable to highlight text

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950 / PRS+ 2.1 alpha for 950 (2.1.01alpha) 

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Try to make a note with highlighting text

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Nothing happens. Text is not highlighted.
(It is possible to make a note by drawing and delete existing notes)

When I remove PRS+ and use original firmware, everything is working fine. 
When I downgrade to PRS+ 2.0 "LeChuck" for 950, everything is fine.

There is a post on mobileread 
(http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=185003) with 650 that has 
the same problem.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by hes...@gmail.com on 22 Jul 2012 at 6:48

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See also discussion on MR post #3901 ff
http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2281399&postcount=3901

Copy of post #3909 by Analogus
I think it's an issue of PRS 2.1 Alpha. So far as I can remember I have had no 
problem until I merged my Zork with alpha.

The glitch is quite strange. It's not possible to highlight or use a dic 
SOMETIMES. It depends on the page of a book you are using. Say, the first page 
might be ok, on the second page you only coul use the last 3 lines, on the next 
page line 9-13 is unusable...

After playing quite a while I may clearly say, this behaviour is connected to 
SINGLE PARAGRAPHS (Absätze)!
Roughly each second paragraph is not working. If one word is not working, the 
whole paragraph is not working. Most of the time, the next paragraph is ok, the 
following refuses to work, ...

A. 

Original comment by Mark.N...@gentlemansclub.de on 28 Oct 2012 at 8:32

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I made some further tests with my PRS350:

PRS+ 2.0 "LeChuck" for 350:
EPUB: Highlighting & using dics not possible roughly every other/second 
paragraph
RTF: no problems
PDF: no problems

PRS+ 2.1 alpha for 350:
EPUB: Highlighting & using dics not possible roughly every other/second 
paragraph
RTF: no problems
PDF: no problems

ZORK for 350 using repository from 08-october-2012:
RTF: no problems
PDF: no problems
BBeB: no problems
EPUB: Highlighting & using dics not possible roughly every other/second 
paragraph. 

But:
This error is not present in each EPUB. I tried to find out what could be 
responsible. 
I started with EPUB (over 200 pages) having this glitch:

Calibre: converting epub --> epub: glitch further present
Calibre: exploding epub and brute removing picture & CSS: glitch present
Calibre: converting epub --> rtf: glitch removed in rtf
Calibre: rtf --> epub: glitch gone!

Original comment by josef.mi...@gmail.com on 1 Nov 2012 at 1:27

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same thing for PRS-650

Original comment by kristof....@gmail.com on 4 Nov 2012 at 7:18

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I got a test-file form Analogus.
Indeed there are paragraphs, where after a double tap the "don't enter lane" 
sign blinks up, instead of calling the dic.

This is independend of the orientation. 
If a word in a paragraph isn't recognised in portrait, then it is the same in 
landscape, same goes for true-landscape.

BUT, I ran a quick test in safe-mode, and there is the same behaviour!
So this looks like a bug in the SONY-firmware / or the epub-encoding.

Though the testfile is calibre-formated, it doesn't look suspicious at a first 
glance, but should be check against a validator.

Original comment by Mark.N...@gentlemansclub.de on 5 Nov 2012 at 8:49

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Hi Mark, 

I want to point out that as stated in the report, "When I remove PRS+ and use 
original firmware, everything is working fine. "
So, if it is still not working in safe mode there is something about that safe 
mode. 

Also dictionary issue and highlight text issue could be different issues, I 
reported about highlighting text, didn't check the dictionary functionality.

Original comment by hes...@gmail.com on 5 Nov 2012 at 9:32

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hesse,

thanks for your headsup, but I just unistalled PRS+ on my reader, and it 
behaves the same!

After further testing it is clearly that annotations and calling the dictionary 
are  interlinked. If a double-tap didn't bring up the dictionary, you coudn't 
highlight in this paragraph. Though you can highlight, if you start in a 
"tap-aware" paragraph, mark over a "bad" one, and end in a "tap-aware" one.

With the testfile provided by Analogus this is the same in native firmware 
(after PRS+ uninstall and rebooting twice - just to be sure) and in any PRS+ 
version.

Also it isn't just linked to certain paragraphs, the "tap-aware" paragraphs 
might change upon your font-size-setting.

I'm able to highligt a paragraph in XS, which couldn't be marked in "S"

I'm glade that reverting to stock-firmware solved it for you, but for my 650, 
the problem remains in the stock-fw too.

Will try to investigate further, but as I can't reproduce this on a regular 
base, and - at least for my 650 - this isn't related to PRS+ it is hard to 
track this down.

Original comment by Mark.N...@gentlemansclub.de on 6 Nov 2012 at 7:54

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Original comment by msukhias...@gmail.com on 17 Dec 2012 at 1:39

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