Sonny Software

A minor issue:

In recent years I’ve come to realize that on-screen documents with a light-blue background are much easier on the eye than bright white. (This forum uses such a background.) But Bookends is one of the few places (along with Mail) that I can’t get a gentle background. (Mellel and Scrivener allow this; Nisus and Sente do in parts.) So I’m wondering whether it might be possible to add this feature to Bookends.

I realize that there are many windows (or panes) involved, and that the Reference List pane already uses light blue to offset alternate entries, so I’m sure there are issues I don’t understand. But would it be feasible to implement this at least in some parts, say, the Reference Window, the Concise View pane, the Display pane....?

Thanks

Hi,

It's possible to do this. But as you say, there are many, many panes and it would be unwieldy to allow one to set them separately. Also, color is used extensively in the list view. I suppose I could have a preference for the reference window if people really wanted it. Do they?

Jon
Sonny Software

Hi Jon
Thanks for your quick reply.
Your attentiveness to all of us out here is remarkable.

The panes I’d most like to be able to alter are the Concise View pane, Display pane, and Group pane. (Since these are the ones I have open routinely.) But I may well be a minority of one.

I don’t mean to be ungrateful, so I hope this doesn’t ‘grate’:
One of Scrivener's strengths, I think, is its configurability. It offers control of background color for at least six panes.

In any case, I’m not after a rainbow, just something softer than black-on-white.

Thanks again for a great program and for such excellent support.

I'm not adverse to adding something like this for the concise view and formatted display pane (it won't look good in the group pane, which is a hierarchical list, for technical reasons) -- you can already configure the color of the labels in the concise view. If others think it's a good idea, too, let me know.

Jon
Sonny Software

I like gentler colors as well. You can change the background color of the groups pane, the concise/right pane, and the bottom pane in Sente too.