Ryka wrote:
> Really? What color do use for text on a black background? I always found
> white text to be best.

I use a light shade of gray, close to white but it cuts the contrast enough so
it's not so glaring, like #dddddd or #eeeeee.

> Interesting about the printing problems, I don't think I've ever thought
> about that. My computer automatically ignores the black background and
> prints the white text in black and leaves colored text as is.

I don't know if it's older printers or newer ones that have this problem.  I
know that HP laserjets love to print colors in shades of gray (found this out
when I had color coded different numbers in a report and found the b/w HP
laserjet was printing the blue and red numbers in a light gray, eep!)

> My current solution is black background/white text with an option for text
> versions. Do you know how the automated archive creates text versions "on
> the fly"? I don't really need the auto archive since this is a pretty small
> archive, but having a way to create automatice text versions would be handy.

I can't tell you how it does it, I can't write scripts like that, I just know
it works.  There's a particular script that it uses.  You could download the
automated archive scripts and find that one and adapt it to your own uses...

And even tho your archive is small still, you might look at using the
automated archive, it's much easier when you start out with it, than having to
convert hundreds of stories later when the archive gets big (alice says after
having converted a 2,000+ story archive and a couple 300+ story archives in
the last four months :-)), I run every archive I set up or maintain on the
automated archive now, even little ones.  Once you get used to setting it up,
it's easy.

alice ttlg


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