I use a couple of editor styles in particular, which are accessed by keyboard short alt-cmd-8 and alt-cmd-7.
There is also a default style called ‘default style’ which is similar
My keyboard shortcuts (as above) are calling completely different styles – all caps, Courier – which I have never used or set.
I have:
Deleted and redefined these styles
Deleted and redefined the default style
Attempted to find the ‘rogue’ styles without success and deleted all other styles not being used
Deleted the L&L plist
Checked in Mac Keyboard Prefs to see if my shortcuts appear anywhere else (they don’t)
I am in a job where I absolutely rely on quick changes of style via keyboard shortcuts, so suggestions will be more than usually gratefully received!
I am at the point of deleting/reinstalling Scrivener. Should I just do this?
After a clean install of Scrivener (following removal with AppManager) I still can’t shake these rogue styles – they are still there. Database corruption?
The main difficulty is that I am getting an all-caps style. How do I set characters to caps/small caps/ulc? If I could access this as a character format I might be able to rebuld the character style which is at the root of my problem.
That sounds to me more like you’ve switch scriptwriting mode on. With that mode you don’t need styles, so the whole shortcut system works on elements instead (like Character, Dialogue and so on). Those will all be Courier and sometimes uppercase.
The solution is to simple toggle scriptwriting off for any documents in your binder that are using a yellow icon, with ⌘8. Since one of your style shortcust is ⌥⌘8, that might explain how it got that way—particularly in light of an annoying macOS bug where if the Option shortcut isn’t available, it just decides that you meant ⌘8 instead!
That sounds to me more like you’ve switch scriptwriting mode on. With that mode you don’t need styles, so the whole shortcut system works on elements instead (like Character, Dialogue and so on). Those will all be Courier and sometimes uppercase.
The solution is to simply toggle scriptwriting off for any documents in your binder that are using a yellow icon, with ⌘8. Since one of your style shortcust is ⌥⌘8, that might explain how it got that way—particularly in light of an annoying macOS bug where if the Option shortcut isn’t available, it just decides that you meant ⌘8 instead!
Indeed there is. Refer to appendix A.1 for setting custom shortcuts, which you can use to assign difficult sequences to things you’d rather never accidentally trigger.