Documentation · Settings
Appearance and board
The app’s language, light or dark, the size of the text, how moves are written, and the colours and pieces of the board.
Two tabs of Settings (⌘,): Appearance, for the language, the theme, the text and the notation, and Board, for the colours and the pieces. Every choice applies at once, in all windows, and stays in the Mac’s preferences: the archive and the games do not change.
Language
The menu has System language, which follows the Mac’s languages and says in brackets which one the app will use, for example “System language (English)”; below, the languages of Terza Torre, each with its own name: Deutsch, English, Español, Français, Italiano, Nederlands, Polski and Português (Portugal).
Only the language of Terza Torre changes: the Mac’s does not. The new language shows the next time the app opens, and the tab reminds you.
Light or dark
System, Light or Dark. With System the app follows macOS, even when the Mac switches by itself from light to dark during the day. It is the same choice as the button in the toolbar of the main window.
Text size
A slider with seven steps, from 90% to 150%; Standard, 100%, is the macOS text, and Standard size goes back to it. It applies to the text of every window of the app: with the text, the rows of the list grow, and so do the columns and fields that hold it. Menus, alerts and the toolbar stay those of macOS, and the board of the main window keeps the width of its column.
The same commands are in the View menu:
| Command | Keys |
|---|---|
| Bigger text | ⌘+ |
| Smaller text | ⌘− |
| Standard size | ⌘0 |
Move notation
Letters or Figurines. Moves are written this way throughout the app, and below an Example shows a row of moves written as the app will write it.
With letters, the Language of the letters menu says which language they are in. At first it is App language: in English K, Q, R, B, N. You can choose one of the 17 languages the PGN standard provides for, each with its own letters, or write your own: one letter in the box under each piece, and the choice becomes Custom letters. Each piece is written with a letter of its own: two pieces with the same letter could not be told apart, so the app does not accept it.
With figurines the piece is drawn: ♞f3 instead of Nf3. They are always the same, whatever set the board shows.
PGN files, exported ones too, keep the English letters as the standard requires, and comments stay as they were written.
The repertoire signs
At the bottom of the same tab, Show repertoire signs in the notation of your games, on at first:
- ▪ after your moves that are in the repertoire, also in the explorer in Me as White and Me as Black;
- ⑂ on the move where the game left it and, above the moves, a line that says how.
Off, your games are not even compared with the repertoire. The repertoire pages show everything anyway. The switch belongs to Pro, like the repertoire: without Pro it is off and carries the PRO mark.
The Board tab
Preview: all the app’s boards are drawn like this, in the editor, in the main window, in the repertoire, in the opponent dossiers and on paper printed with My board.
Colours: five ready-made, Green, the starting one, Brown, Blue, Grey and Purple. Or your own: choose a colour for the Light squares or for the Dark squares and the board switches to Custom; going back to Custom you find your colours again.
Pieces: five sets, Chessnut, the starting one, Cburnett, Fantasy, Celtic and Spatial.
On the board: Show coordinates and Highlight the last move can be turned off. The coordinates take by themselves a colour that can be read on the squares you chose.