Since there doesn’t seem to be an option to reply separately, I’ll have to reply to all three of the last replies at once - and will probably miss something in doing so.
After the 5:40 PM post, I booted to Win7 to check my version number and obtain my Serial Number Name and Serial Number, just to be ready. (I now see that L&L is cautious and doesn’t register those in the “About” pane - a method usually used by many applications which I have installed. So, I had to hunt back through my e-mails to find them.) I see now that the Windows version I have is 1.9.16. (Since it is shown under “Previous Versions” I erroneously assumed L&L was up to 1.9.17.)
I am primarily using Scrivener right now for a very long essay w/ multiple chapters and footnotes, composed w/ my Windows version. So, I wanted to be sure that I was not going to have any corruption or alteration using it on a different platform.
Thus, further working on it in the Beta versions under Wine or the Linux version doesn’t seem to be an option - though I plan to use the latter for new projects and a version under Wine for the current or new projects (if I can solve the problem w/ it). Right now it seems I unfortunately will have to revert to Win7 for working on the current project, while when I have time trying to get it to work under Linux. (This will be an inconvenience since due to possible security problems I only use Linux and ArcaOS for internet access, and thus will have to boot between platforms. Due to having to reinstall applications and possible non-functionality of some of them, I have refused to upgrade to Win10.)
Right now, from my last effort, I think that Play on Linux may be applying the wrong Wine version; from the WineHQ site it seems that different versions are required for different Scrivener versions. I now have multiple Wine versions installed and will have to experiment w/ the POL menu to try to switch between them in my experimentation. This is a process that I will have to play w/ during evenings or the weekend so as to now interfere w/ other work - including the aforesaid essay.
There also may be a problem w/ the NET files being fully installed. As said, I did enter the two (2) Winetricks commands but received some error messages that some of it couldn’t be downloaded (or something to that effect. I’ll try those again to see if they might be complete the process.
I will look at the Crossover option, verify there is a Debian version, and probably see if that “performs the trick”. From my years w/ OS/2 I have no problem at all w/ Shareware, and that is certainly not a horrendous price - especially if I can use it for other Windows applications. (The only reason I remain wedded to Windows are my Acrobat Standard, Dragon Naturally Speaking, Moneydance and Scrivener applications, and if I could get them to work also this cost would be more than worth it.)
I’ll work on all of the above, as well as look at those documents I created from the earlier threads, and report back w/ any success (though probably not failures). THANKS MUCH for all of the suggestions.