So, I’m migrating to Mac. Eish!
Tables work fine, especially bullets and numbering within tables, over the Windows version.
If I have a table of seven cells across, all works fine—the table cells expand and contract depending on the overall window size. On merging one or more cells in any row, the table becomes a fixed width. I can live with that.
However, an unnatural side effect is that the right border of the table becomes uneven. When adjusting it, the text resists maintaining a consistent size across cells, and manual adjustments become a guessing game. Worse, after a Scrivener exit, the painstaking manual realignment of the right edge and random cells is uneven again for whatever reason.
Is there any way to suppress this effect? I use tables for my character sheets in the app.
Running macOS Tahoe 26.5 and Scrivener 3.5.2, though the same thing was happening under Sequoia.
EDIT: On further investigation it appears that only single column tables stretch and condense with a window.
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Just did the same. Which setup do you have?
M4 Macbook Air. I noted your post about getting the Neo.
Ooh. How are you finding the Mac version?
I hardly notice the Liquid Glass effect. I don’t see what all the resistance is about. Coming from a 4K Windows display, I do notice the blurry fonts of the “2.5K” display. Luckily, Aptos (my font of choice for writing) renders well on Mac, and I prefer it over all the available native fonts. Of course, any Windows user would miss separate Delete and Backspace keys.
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Yeah, Liquid Glass is fine. The only thing I miss is holding a key and getting accents, but I can live with that.
Is your keyboard set to something special. I have UK keyboards on both my Macs and my iPad Pro, and on all of them holding down a key where there are alternatives with diacritics brings up a pane of them all… hold down ‘e’ and I get:
Does that not work for you?
Alternately, there are ‘dead keys’ for the most comon accents e.g. opt-e followed by e gives you é, opt-n followed by a gives you ã, etc.
If you go to Apple > Settings > Keyboard > Input sources > Edit, the first line is:
If that is enabled, on your menu-bar you have;
The Show Keyboard Viewer brings up a representation which shows the assignments for all the alphanumeric keys including with shift and option keys held down, and the dead keys marked.
All of that works on UK, US and International keyboards; I have no experience of using AZERTY or other keyboards.
Mark
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I use a normal Mac keyboard set to the Brazilian layout on MacOS 26, and I have no idea why this isn’t showing up. But I can live without it.
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I’m running Tahoe 26.5; I just set up Brazilian ABNT2 layout for my keyboard (the Brazilian and Brazilian legacy options have the same assignments as UK; ABNT2 changes all the punctuation etc. assignments) but holding down a key like e or a still brings up the pane of accented versions.
So I wonder if that’s something about the Neo, though I have no idea how that should be. If you have an Apple Store near you, I’d go and ask them. It seems bizarre to me that it doesn’t work for you.
Mark
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The reason can be something benign, like a weird combination of “Key Repeat” / “Delay Until Repeat” settings as described here. (Or a text expander-type of utility interfering.) It’s likely not a device- or hardware-specific issue, the feature works on all sorts of weird third-party keyboards.
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OMG thank you for that article! Using defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true fixed the issue.
I must have gotten a buggy version of Tahoe…
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