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Author: justwannaplay
Date: 2005-08-18 12:36
Hello,
Is there a way to change the settings on the board? - that is, I'm finding the light gray type on the gray background hard to read (yes, I must be getting older but I can't be the only one!). Sometimes you want to read a thread quickly - the samey colors seem to slow me down.
How about it Mark? Please?
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Author: justwannaplay
Date: 2005-08-18 12:48
"BTW - it's black on gray ..."
but it's a very thin black type - thus it looks gray. To my eyes.
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2005-08-18 13:07
It's a tradeoff. The background gray for this forum is baked in the program (not using CSS) and is selected for ease in reading - a background of white on many monitors makes it tiring on the eyes.
The font family (Courier New, Courier) is rendered by your computer. It's used so that things line up when someone's trying to create a message that needs formatting. Nicer fonts aren't monospaced or available on many computers.
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2005-08-18 14:12
At least on a PC, you can press CTRL-A to highlight everything, go into Word, press CTRL-E (Edit), S (Past Special) and select Text or Unformatted.
This will insert the text (no formatting or graphics) in your default font and size, with no background.
You'll need to scroll past lots of non-message stuff, but it will be more readable.
I use this a lot for pages where the text is wider than the screen.
Ken Shaw
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Author: Clarinetgirl06
Date: 2005-08-18 14:22
Or simply press down the left side of your mouse and highlight the text. It's easy to scroll down to the bottom the posts and left click after the last word and simply drag the mouse left and up (northwest) until all the posts on 1 topic are highlighted. On my computer when I highlight it looks like white type on a navy blue background.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2005-08-18 14:28
J W P - While Mark has answered your question, and has given you and us the reasoning and restrictions behind it, I'll chime in with my problems and accommodations I've had to make to Age Related Macular Degradation/ Degeneration, better know by oldies as the most common form of AMD. There are web-sites re: this, some helpful advice , lots of "sales-pitches", cavaet emptor ! Mine at age 86 seems to be only "mild" and somewhat "under control" by my Doctors' recommended medications known as the AREDS formulation, combinations of large doses of zinc, vitamins C and E ond others. I dont [yet?] have large central-vision "black spots", but find that, for reading, I require much brighter lighting than earlier, and am somewhat uncomfortable trying to drive at night because of inability to distinguish among the "shades" of gray. Happily, except for a somehat-wandering "span of attention", if lighting is adequate, it hasn't hurt my playing !!, mainly comm. band B C. Coming home from reh/conc, I ask our younger car-pooler to drive. In the past, I also have found certain combos of background and print color to be nearly unreadable, black on red p.e., also many of us have some color-blindness, possibly unknown. See your Optham !! 'nuff [too much] for now?? Don
Thanx, Mark, Don
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Author: justwannaplay
Date: 2005-08-18 21:28
Thanks Don, Carrie and Ken - Highlighting the text does help. Don - my dad had AMD and was color-blind to boot, so your post hit home and reminds me that I must tell my Optician next time I go for new specs!
Elizabeth
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