Way To Remove Space-Hogging Tool Bars, etc.

[Enoch]

Pardon me if what I ask for is already possible; but I don't know how if it is.

 

Looking at accordance on my MacBook with the ASV selected, I see a huge amount of space occupied by tool bars & banners, where text window might be, enabling more text on the screen at one time.

 

At the top is

1) The Mac bar with the Apple Accordance File Edit etc.

2) a bar with traffic lights & "Workspace" (very little content to justify occupying entire line from side to side)

 

THEN A BLOCK THAT INCLUDES 5 SEGMENTS (no, I'm not shouting, LOL)

3) a narrow blank grey area that is on top of menu buttons, which expands to the right

4) 2 menu windowlets (ASV down arrow); Words | Verses . . . way to right circular arrow pair (which usually I find useless -- I wish one could easily regress to the last window left)

5) a very long white box where you put search strings with a clock at right end & a magnifying glass to right

6) a narrow strip of blank grey (which is part of "the block")

 

7) "Verse 123 of 257, slider with little box that says "2," bar graphs, Compare, windowlet that says "Words" with arrows extending to a box with arrows at the right & 4 icons,

8) X in a circle, ASV with arrows up & down, box with arrows, small A, large A

 

AT THE BOTTOM is

 

9) a rather thick white bar occupied with 4 triangles, up & down, & way to the right in a menu box "2Cor 7:7 with down arrow.

 

Is it really necessary to occupy so much of the screen with these bars & banners?

Shouldn't there be some way to temporarily get rid of them or leave only a choice of them?

 

Thanks for your response

[Helen Brown]

We hear you! We already minimized wasted space in the last major releases, but we are working to make an even more efficient workspace. One trick you might use, for reading lots of text, is the slideshow mode (in the Window menu). The only catch is that it only works when there is a single zone in the workspace. It does fill your screen with the text panes and is easy to revert to the regular view.

[Stuart Robertson]

A "full-screen, minimum trim" display mode, that allows multi-column text layout (the current slideshow ends up with unusably long sentences - very unpleasant for reading). "The other" Mac Bible software has a really neat multi-column layout that allows the number of columns to be set to automatic or be user-selected. Nice when reading longer texts.