How Can I Minimize Tool bars & see more text?q

[Enoch]

I have selected not to see tool bar, thus I do not see the large tool area with Library, etc. in it.

Now I am looking at a monitor that has 10 1/2" of height.

There are 6 tool bars at the top & one at the bottom, one of the 6 having 2 parts.  the bars at the top take about 2 3/8":

1) Mac Tool bar,

2) traffic light & "Workspace" bar,

3) blue tool bar which is headed "English texts."

# 3 has 2 parts:

3A) blue color with English texts which is to left & right of Reina-valera 1995 with a down arrow,

3B) blue area on top of 3A which has nothing in it above Reina-valera 1995, just blue color.

4) (again)  Reina-Valera with a down arrow & to its right the search window.

5) verse context slider & on the right side the Add Parallel window

6) (3rd time on screen) Reina-Valera with font size AA & gear menus, about 1/2 inch in height.

 

7) At the bottom there is a tool bar with up & down triangular arrows & a verse window at the right.

 

Thus tool areas consume about 2 3/8" plus 1/2" = nearly 3 inches of vertical space out of 10 1/2".

 

 

 

Aside from going into Reading Mode (which I think does not allow parallel windows),

is there anyway to cut out all the wasted space on the screen?

 

One thing is obvious:  It is not so much the quantity of tools that takes up all that room, but the use of new horizontal lines for different things, instead of having them in columns.  If one printed out what the screen looks like in total, & cut the icons & letters out of the blank spaces, it all would not take much room laid out side by side.  For example, the traffic lights take about an inch & the word "Workspace" takes another inch.  Thus 2 inches of text occupies 18 1/2 inches of width, but new bar is created then instead of continuing to the right with Reina-valera & English Texts simply added to the Workspace bar line.

 

At any rate, is there some way to minimize all that tool space & still be able to have parallel windows?

Edited March 10, 2015 by Enoch

[jeremyduncan]

Right click on the tool bar and select "hide toolbar".

Then click the Green Stoplight (on Yosemite) in the top left corner. 

You should have a pretty "maximized" workspace now.

Edited March 12, 2015 by jeremyduncan

[Joel Brown]

Enoch, as with all things in life, choosing what to show on the screen is a series of compromises.  Every time you take something away, you also lose that information or access.  That being said, here are the compromises you can take:

 

1) As Jeremy said, you can hide the toolbar entirely.  You can also right-click the toolbar and set it to 'Text Only' and 'Use small size' for a much more slender toolbar without much loss of functionality.

 

2) If you are on 10.7 (Lion) or greater, you can make the window fullscreen, eliminating the menubar, titlebar, and more.  This is with the double-arrows icon in the very top right, or if you are on Yosemite (10.10), the Greek button in the top left.

 

3) In Accordance, you can choose to only show the tab bar if you have more than one tab.  This helps for the situations where you only want one text or tool open per zone. You can set this preference in Preferences -> Workspaces.

 

I hope this helps!

[Enoch]

thanks for your responses.

 

One thing I am unclear on,  I began the question saying,

 

"I have selected not to see tool bar, thus I do not see the large tool area with Library, etc. in it."  But then you write how I can hide the toolbar or make it smaller.  "

 

What toolbar are you speaking about hiding or minimizing?  Any & all of the 6 toolbars?  If I have the toolbar already hidden, I don't know how I would be then hiding it or minimizing it.

 

But thanks for responding.  I will go & check right clicking on each tool bar.

Edited March 13, 2015 by Enoch