On 2009-05-17 18:52 Brian Barker wrote:
At 07:58 17/05/2009 -0400, Eustace Fril wrote:
On 2009-05-16 21:43 Brian Barker wrote:
When you say you have been "using white text on dark background on
[your] system", you mean that you have set this up as an
accessibility option in Windows - right?
Not exactly. Using the Accessibility option created some problems, so
I created a theme with blue (0, 0, 104) background and white (233,
233, 255) text.
I suspect that this is your problem: that you are doing things in a
non-standard way. If you specifically ask for black table borders on a
dark blue background, why shouldn't Writer do what you ask? You may
have to solve your "some problems" instead, and use Windows normally.
I turned the boundaries to green and checked them to see what would
happen but I do not see any difference in the appearance. The borders
continue to appear black.
Er, quite so! You will not see green boundaries when they are covered
by black borders.
I checked the table boundaries and set them to Automatic which is my
Text color. But there is not effect on the appearance of the document.
The problem is that when I open Table... > Borders > Color is *Black*,
_not_, as it should, *Automatic*, which I would expect to show as
white on my screen and print black on the printout, as the text does.
No: you need that to be "black" (or whatever), so that you can specify
unambiguously the colour in which you want the borders to print.
(Remember that this setting is for borders, not boundaries.) If you use
the operating system's facility for reversing the display colours,
Writer will display such black borders in an appropriate colour -
perhaps white - just as you ask. That is exactly the "automatic" result
you need, of course. But it evidently doesn't work with your
non-standard technique.
It seems to me obvious that there should be a Automatic option in the
table borders color, and there isn't, and I really do not understand
why they considered the issue closed before they fixed the problem.
I don't see how this would help. I need to be able to specify the
colour of any table border as it should print, and to do that I need the
full range of colours - not something invented by Writer. So if I want
table borders to print in black, I need to set the colour to "black".
Now I also - indeed - want these borders to display visibly so that I
can see them when I am editing, even if I have a different colour scheme
set in the operating system. And that is exactly what Writer does -
providing you use Windows' facility for arranging this.
From what they write, I gather that there seems to be a solution, but
I do not understand what this solution is...
If you can use one of Windows' many "high contrast" options, Writer
appears to do exactly what you ask.
At 08:10 17/05/2009 -0400, Eustace Fril wrote:
A clarification to what I wrote: when I choose Line > Style > None,
the lines do appear white.
That's because what you are now looking at is not borders but
boundaries. The default colour for these is light grey, and this is
unchanged against your dark blue background. (It will look very much
like white in context, of course.)
But as I said, there should be an option for Color > Automatic, so
they appear white but print black, like the text does.
In effect, there is - but apparently only if you play ball with Windows.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
Thanks again for your help. One more question:
"UX will write an issue to allow users to set the color to AUTO, for
other reasons."
Does this mean that UX has added the issue of the Color: Automatic of
table borders? It seems to me to be meaning just that, I can't, however,
find it when I searched in the issues...
emf
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