Hrmmm.... While my internet is being slow as balls, I've been trying to learn how to use magic on a single player world, but I cannot for the life of me figure this out. I'm using Ars Magica 2, and I can't make my first spell. I made the occulus, learned projectile, touch, and dig. I made the inscription table and a writable book. I open the table UI and my three symbols are in the top box. At the bottom of the window are 4 brown boxes, the last of which is disabled. To start with, projectile and touch are both enabled, while dig is disabled. I drag projectile down to the first brown box, and now dig is enabled... but when I try to drag dig down there, it won't stick. I've tried putting it in the same brown box as projectile, in a neighboring box, nothing works. Then I tried the same thing using touch instead of projectile, with the same result.
I've been googling like crazy trying to figure out how this is supposed to work, but I cannot find a single explanation anywhere. Every page just says "make a spell at the inscription table," no details. I can't find answers in my Arcane Compendium, either. Same problem.
I'm just trying to make a simple dig spell. What the crap is going on here? What have I missed? Or is it bugged somehow?
EDIT: Finally figured it out. Apparently the gray box at the bottom that I thought was a button is actually for some of the symbols. Ridiculously complicated, and I don't even understand why... I looked at older versions of the mod and the UI was far easier to understand. Why the extra complication?