<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Herb,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That’s what I did concerning the theme from prefs. I know how to transfer the theme I have been tinkering with, so not a big thing.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As for opacity, that’s what I assumed, but I don’t see any difference. E.g., GLG-Lite seems to have Opacity=0 for the console, yet that is not apparent in the image attached. I am guessing that I miss a more important part of the big picture — e.g., what it means to show the background behind the window. Or there is a system-wide setting that blocks transparency. But these are unlikely because the theme “TransparentTheme” actually does show the background (windows behind).. Interestingly, in that theme all Opacity settings equal 1 — except for Image Copy, whatever that is.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I don’t know whether it has to do with the “Alpha” field (last column, to the right of “Text" and “Background”). I didn’t really understand what that was. Dick’s notes talk about “alpha=1”, while the preference panel have an `entry’ Alpha that is a color. I am starting to believe that Dick’s notes alpha is what I — following the pop-up window, perhaps `color well’ — called “Opacity.” In any case, in TransparentTheme these Alphas are black, but they are also in DarkTheme, where I don’t notice any transparency. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Having said all this, it is not an important topic for me. I was looking actually for a way to soften a particular hue that I had come across and liked, as I found doing that manually to be difficult, but transparency/opacity is not the way to go. </div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><img apple-inline="yes" id="EA74AAAA-6676-40C6-AC69-7109F722DC20" src="cid:E63D5D69-3C97-4D57-817E-207997F3492A@lan" class=""><br class=""><div class="">On Nov 20, 2018, at 14:08, Herbert Schulz <<a href="mailto:herbs@wideopenwest.com" class="">herbs@wideopenwest.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Nov 20, 2018, at 5:50 AM, Nicolae Garleanu <<a href="mailto:garleanu@berkeley.edu" class="">garleanu@berkeley.edu</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Hi,<br class=""><br class="">I just updates from 3.99 to 4.16. Based on a previous message from Herb — and Dick’s change notes — I created a theme from prefs, but in doing so the theme (the colors) did not change — as if the preferences had already been overwritten with the loaded theme. In particular, I got the LiteTheme, which had been loaded by default. Later I created a new theme (say, NT), and when I tried the experiment again, the theme that got created from prefs was identical to NT, which was loaded at the time.<br class=""><br class="">Is this expected behavior? Did I do something wrong? Most important, can I recover my old color preferences? I am wondering whether the color settings in Preferences/TeXShop.plist were overwritten. Or, perhaps more likely, some local settings are such that TexShop looks at the “wrong” preferences?<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Howdy,<br class=""><br class="">I haven't done this in a while now. The Theme doesn't change the old values in Preferences that were created by an old version of TeXShop so that data should still be there.<br class=""><br class="">After pressing the button to create a new Theme from the old Preferences make sure to give it a name and Save it. Then you need to change the Theme for whichever mode you wish to use it (Dark or Light Mode) to use that names Theme.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">Should that not be possible, I have the same color scheme on another computer, where I haven’t yet updated. Presumably, the plist file on that computer contains the right coloring scheme. Can I create a theme from that file? <br class=""></blockquote><br class="">As I said above, the settings that you had in your TeXShop.plist file should still be there. You can't simply replace TeXShop.plist with a new one because the OS actually copies it to memory and you new one will be overwritten with the one in memory.<br class=""><br class="">One of the nice things about the use of Theme files is that they are easy to get at (they are sored in ~/Library/TeXShop/Themes) and can be freely moved from one system to another.<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">I would not want anyone (me included) to put much effort into this. Impatient as I was, I ended up tinkering manually with the theme until I got it close to what I used to have.<br class=""><br class="">Best,<br class="">Nicolae <br class=""><br class="">PS What does the opacity setting in the color choice do? E.g., I tried to have 0 for the background of the console window, and (i) didn’t notice anything, and (ii) the level got changed back to 100 when I clicked on another window (then came back to the console to check).<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">Opacity is the opposite of Transparency so it's a measure of how much of the background behind the window shows through.<br class=""><br class="">Hope this was helpful.<br class=""><br class="">Good Luck,<br class=""><br class="">Herb Schulz<br class="">(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">----------- Please Consult the Following Before Posting -----------<br class="">TeX FAQ: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq" class="">http://www.tex.ac.uk/faq</a><br class="">List Reminders and Etiquette: <a href="https://sites.esm.psu.edu/~gray/tex/" class="">https://sites.esm.psu.edu/~gray/tex/</a><br class="">List Archives: <a href="http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx" class="">http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.macosx</a><br class=""> <a href="https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/" class="">https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/</a><br class="">TeX on Mac OS X Website: <a href="http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/" class="">http://mactex-wiki.tug.org/</a><br class="">List Info: <a href="https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex" class="">https://email.esm.psu.edu/mailman/listinfo/macosx-tex</a><br class=""></div></div></div><br class=""></div></body></html>