I have to say that my strategy with new computers and new applications is to turn off almost every "auto" feature I can find. There is nothing I hate more than a device assuming it knows what I want better than I do. In most cases it is wrong.

I find myself wondering if it is strictly necessary to use LaTeX. My thesis never went within a million miles of LaTex, I just compiled to RTF and went from there. It was a long time ago, it is true, and LaTeX was probably less fashionable then, but I wonder if the process needs to be that complicat...

One "solution" might be to use Markdown formatting (*italic*, **bold**, etc.). Not perfect, but perhaps better than nothing.

flora wrote:I saw a different Mac print screen

That is a very old version of the MacOS, too. It now looks like this:

If you want to scan a finished manuscript with Zotero, it would be better to go File -> Compile... then select Rich Text.

Elsewhere on the forums the original poster stated that she is not very knowledgeable about software and computing, and pleaded for tolerance (she stated that she had not known what iOS was, and had been flamed for displaying this lack of understanding). So I deliberately tried to offer the simplest...

Janet Fizz wrote:By the way, I see you are in Cambridge - I live near Huntingdon. Small world, eh?

It has seemed much bigger over the past year or so ... And don't give up on the idea of signatures. Plenty can be achieved with a little ingenuity.

Do you mean a "handwritten" signature? If so, I don't believe you can do this directly, though I'm ready to be proved wrong. Some years ago I used a graphics program and "wrote" my signature (you could probably do it on your phone using your finger), and saved that as a graphics ...

You might like to look at this Mac utility: https://www.stclairsoft.com/DefaultFolderX/

For future reference there is a Mac program called iMazing which allows you to look at files on an iPad. I haven't used it for a long time so I don't know how good it is these days. https://imazing.com/

Aaand ... having tried dark mode I cannot stand it! About thirty seconds was enough. I can't see a thing nor understand what I'm looking at. I'm going to suggest you look at dark mode again, and tweak your colour settings a bit in Preferences:Appearance, using the greyscale sliders in the Colour Pi...

rwg wrote:An alternative to HazeOver is Finer Focus, which possibly gives you greater control over what you see and how you see it. (Not sure whether it runs in Big Sur.)

http://www.cool-mac-tools.com/index.html?full=true

Thanks for that -- that one is new to me. UnDistracted is another possibility.

Perhaps it needs stating explicitly that (as I understand it) the text engine that lies under Scrivener is Apple's, and Scrivener is merely using what is provided by the system, therefore Scrivener has no real control over it. If the implementation of styles is lacking, that is down to Apple. This ...

You have completely and totally misunderstood my comments and what I was looking for. With the greatest respect, I don't believe that is really the case. It seems clear to me (and I think it was clear to Login) that what you were looking for is a program that would deal with the visual aspect when ...

Silverdragon wrote:Again, sadly, I don't use Homebrew and don't know what it is.

Worth knowing about: https://brew.sh.
Makes some operations a lot easier and quicker.