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From: "alice ttlg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> 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.

Hm, I might have to try that. I'll test it out on the next few stories I
archive, see what people think.

>
> > 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!)

Sounds like you're printing in grayscale instead of black & white. But then
again, I use epson.

> 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.

I must admit, I haven't really looked at the automated archive. My web
knowledge is currently limited to html and css. I'm slowly learning more
complicated stuff. What web programming languages would I need to know?

Ryka


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