I would (and want to) use the Inspector function so much more than I do.
But I work in split screen, with both Left and Right Editors in identical ruler width of 6.8. Each time I hit the Inspector, the Right Editor is pushed over and shortens the Left Editor to 6.6. Then, when I remove Inspector, it leaves the Right Editor at 7.1. This is driving me crazy. When I remove the Inspector, I just want my split screen to return with both editors back to their identical size and ruler width. I have to drag the divider manually each time to get the split editor boxes back to identical.
Is there either a way to āfreezeā the Right Editor ruler width (and I donāt mean Lock in Placeāthe Inspector still moves it), so that the Inspector doesnāt push it into the Left Editor, or, a quick way to immediately revert to the previous ruler settings at 6.8 that isnāt so complicated Iām better off just manually moving the ruler divider each time which after many uses of the Inspector gets seriously aggravating.
You should design a Layout for both situations.
Perhaps use a key command manager (Keyboard Maestro?) to create a shortcut (via menu navigation) for them.
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Toggling the inspector show/hide via these Layouts will have your edtors ābehaveā and position/size themselves exactly as you want them to.
There are some settings you can adjust that might improve things:
In the Appearance: General Interface: Options settings tab:
Adjust window size to accommodate binder and inspector: this is on by default, but maybe you turned it off. This makes it so the inspector and binder sidebars act as additions to the window rather than taking up space within it. By default the interior of the window should not be changing by a single pixel when toggling them. So maybe you turned that off?
Secondary to that, if you do make the window too wide to expand, or place it along the edges of the screen, then it might not work as well as if it is a smaller window in the middle. If you are maximising the window though, then consider using the Macās full screen view, and the option in Appearance: Full Screen: Options, Slide in binder and inspector when hidden. They will act as temporary overlays then, showing up when you move the mouse over to the edge of the screen, or when using the shortcuts.
Always resize editors proportionally when resizing window: I believe this is on by default, and is more disruptive than having it turned off. With it on, changing the window size causes all of the splits within the window to float around and change how wide they are, as though the relatively size is more important than how wide you actually set it to be. Iāve never understood why people like this. Turn it off to use more traditional scaling, where the right/bottom frames of a window are what expand, leaving all dividers static unless you move them yourself or they hit minimum size constraints.
Note: if you reset the editor split to 1:1 (by double-clicking on the divider), then it will retain 1:1 automatically even with this option disabled. If you want the left side to stay at a static width while the right side expands or contracts based on window width, then just resize it a little bit.
View āø Text Editing āø Show Page View is maybe a better default mode for you? I donāt know, Iāve never once really bothered with the Ruler to the degree you are seeming to require, so Iāll admit this is outside of my wheelhouse, but it strikes me that if one even cares at all about how wide the ruler is, then a dynamically resizing text editor rectangle is probably not the right tool for the job in the first place.
And as above, I agree Layouts may be very helpful to you. I like to have a āhomeā layout that I can always return to, which greatly reduces the friction of messing with the window to do something in particular, like changing whether the binder changes the contents of the split, or which one. You can set up something specialised for a task you are doing, and then snap everything back to the way it āshouldā be with a single menu command.
Thank you for your quick replies, you resolved the issue.
I do a lot of dual comparison of texts using the split screen for translation work, but I also create massive bibliographies which are thrown out of wack when Binder/Inspector toggled on/off. (I know itās not a WYSIWYG Editor and that Compile resolves these things, but working, in the meantime, with hundreds of off-set bibliographic entries does violence to me, call me OCD).
Anyhow, problem solved.
āVincent I didnāt know about Keyboard Maestro, thanks for the reference and the Layout workaround is something I can see additional uses for.
āAmber, two of your suggestions solved it. First, your second bulletpoint for Appearance > Interface, āalways resize editors proportionally when resizing windowāāthis was not toggled on. I donāt know how I missed this but Iām glad Scrivener had this fix built-in. Turning that on did everything. Apparently Iām the one person who desperately wanted this feature. Second, even if I untick this option in the future, like you said, I did not know double-clicking the divider would retain 1:1. Wondrous!