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Re: Background Colors in The Format Menu

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  • Subject: [mg42857] Re: [mg42821] Background Colors in The Format Menu
  • From: Selwyn Hollis <selwynh at earthlink.net>
  • Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 19:31:14 -0400 (EDT)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

David,

It might be useful as well to add the following colors used by the 5.0 
HelpBrowser style sheet (and perhaps you can think of better names):

Item["HelpBrowser Sand", Background -> RGBColor[0.964706, 0.929412, 
0.839216]],
Item["HelpBrowser Straw", Background -> RGBColor[0.960784, 0.878431, 
0.666667]],
Item["SlideShow Slate", Background -> RGBColor[0.408011, 0.440726, 
0.8]],

And while we're at it, how about some better text colors? The last 3 of 
these come from the Macintosh "crayon" palette:

Item["HelpBrowser Brick", FontColor -> RGBColor[0.592157, 0.313726, 
0.313726]],
Item["Mocha", FontColor -> RGBColor[0.501961, 0.25098, 0]],
Item["Ocean", FontColor -> RGBColor[0, 0.25098, 0.501961]],
Item["Eggplant", FontColor -> RGBColor[0.25098, 0, 0.501961]],

(BTW: Thank you WRI for the excellent redesign of the Help Browser 
style sheet!)

-----
Selwyn Hollis
http://www.math.armstrong.edu/faculty/hollis


On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 04:07  AM, David Park wrote:

> Dear MathGroup,
>
> I have always disliked the choice of background colors in the Format 
> menu. I
> think they are generally too dark, too saturated, or too dull. While 
> it is
> possible to choose Other and then use the color selector to set the 
> color, I
> observe that most people stay with the main choices. If you would like 
> some
> pastel colors to use as cell backgrounds, paste the following code in 
> the
>
> SystemFiles\FrontEnd\TextResources\Windows\MenuSetup.tr file.
>
> (I suppose it is in some other place on other operating systems.)
>
> First copy and save the MenuSetup.tr under a different name so that 
> you can
> recover if necessary.
>
> Then open MenuSetup.tr, scroll down and replace the Menu["Back&ground
> Color",...]
> section with the following code.
>
> Menu["Back&ground Color",
> 		{
> 			Item["&Cell Gray Box", "ToggleGrayBox"],
> 			Delimiter,
> 			Item["&None", Background->None],
> 			Item["Inherite&d", Background->Inherited],
> 			Delimiter,
> 			Item["L&inen", Background->RGBColor[0.980,0.941,0.902]],
> 			Item["A&liceBlue", Background->RGBColor[0.941,0.973,1.0]],
> 			Item["Min&tCream", Background->RGBColor[0.961,1.0,0.980]],
> 			Item["Lig&htYellow", Background->RGBColor[1.0,1.0,0.878]],
> 			Item["Smok&e", Background->RGBColor[0.961,0.961,0.961]],
> 			Item["Mi&styRose", Background->RGBColor[1.0,0.894,0.882]],
> 			Delimiter,
> 			Item["Blac&k", Background->GrayLevel[0]],
> 			Item["&White", Background->GrayLevel[1]],
> 			Item["&10% Gray", Background->GrayLevel[0.1]],
> 			Item["&33% Gray", Background->GrayLevel[0.3333333]],
> 			Item["&50% Gray", Background->GrayLevel[0.5]],
> 			Item["&66% Gray", Background->GrayLevel[0.6666666]],
> 			Item["&90% Gray", Background->GrayLevel[0.9]],
> 			Item["&Red", Background->RGBColor[1, 0, 0]],
> 			Item["&Green", Background->RGBColor[0, 1, 0]],
> 			Item["&Blue", Background->RGBColor[0, 0, 1]],
> 			Item["C&yan", Background->RGBColor[0, 1, 1]],
> 			Item["&Magenta", Background->RGBColor[1, 0, 1]],
> 			Item["Yello&w", Background->RGBColor[1, 1, 0]],
> 			Delimiter,
> 			Item["&Other...", "BackgroundDialog"]
> 		}]
>
> Then when you restart Mathematica you will have a better choice of
> background colors.
>
> David Park
> djmp at earthlink.net
> http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/
>
>


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