Dark Mode 2.0

Hi everybody!

Something I would really enjoy in a future Dorico update is an option to extend the dark mode to write mode: to have a dark paper background with bright notation on it. (Without changing the way how the score is then beeing exported or printed, of course…)

Thanks for considerating this!

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Or perhaps a “Plate Engraver” mode, that does it all in white on black AND in mirror image?

On a Mac, you can inverse the video with CTRL Alt Command 8. There may well be a Windows setting too.

Try it! I find it gets very confusing looking at inverse music for long.
Screenshot 8.png

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I can’t find the burin tool, to carve out my own slurs. That’s in Engraving mode, right?

+1 to all of it. Would be very visually appealing.

We do have an internal option to show the music in white on a dark background, which we use for testing, and we may well expose this in future, as part of a suite of options to influence the colours used in Dorico’s interface as an aid to accessibility.

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benwiggy’s image reminds me of the original photocopy machines one found in the library in the 1960’s, except that they did not reverse the image left-to-right. :slight_smile:

Hi Daniel, this sounds like a dream to my old eyes! :slight_smile: Are you still planning on making the internal option available to the public?

Best,
César.

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Sorry for the bump!

Please do not bump threads! Daniel said it is on the road map, and Dorico is not in the habit of announcing features before they are ready.

https://forums.steinberg.net/t/four-simple-guidelines-to-help-us-help-you/123752/2

Apologies for the bump! Daniel mentioned they “may well expose this in future” but I haven’t found any information about Dark Mode being confirmed as part of the roadmap. Could you kindly point me to a link?

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Try five posts above your own.

In fairness, it’s been a year and a half, so posing the question here (rather than starting yet another thread) hardly seems inappropriate. At least imho.

Bumping threads usually refers to being the same thing up over and over in rapid succession (matter of days, not years).

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Sometimes I used this dark mode on my MBP:

before:
https://scontent.frba3-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/273635976_10224199753334345_1119956975721518604_n.jpg?_nc_cat=106&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=dbeb18&_nc_eui2=AeHcpz1MdU1tj3gIAsR09PqxLt6ehuNJeT4u3p6G40l5PsftjExUh344jj1sosXT_zg&_nc_ohc=Zu-BKqiIQvcAX9j08_p&_nc_ht=scontent.frba3-2.fna&oh=00_AT9RyYFmrGrrhEHEFau6qq2YcMAjI3bsKDVKrysdeBk96g&oe=62351F50

After inverting colors in macOS I get this:

https://scontent.frba3-2.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/274025748_10224199749094239_4498734792712618486_n.jpg?_nc_cat=108&ccb=1-5&_nc_sid=dbeb18&_nc_eui2=AeGgrbtY6iOVQR8Jp-oyXjocrPncji48lPes-dyOLjyU97ZOImHkQri2z4-X9bpF1P8&_nc_ohc=t3kPQbiVFkQAX_iKqqb&_nc_ht=scontent.frba3-2.fna&oh=00_AT_JDQXvbKxi7hEKrlyeexXeuStNMnbaDo0hJgqXXAWkUg&oe=6234CF02

Nor in mine. And poor zolhof even apologized twice for doing nothing wrong at all. I think he deserves an apology.

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Well, he did edit his second post, and I didn’t realize he had asked the same question twice in four days when I first commented as I was scanning too fast. Alas, let’s all move on. No harm, no foul.

It’s all beyond me. I’ll just mind my own business from now on.