Background Colors in The Format Menu
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg42821] Background Colors in The Format Menu
- From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 04:07:56 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
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/