Hello,
Is it possible to be in dark mode? Like dark background and dark page?
Tia
Thankss
I’ve always had my window theme as Dark, but looking at an old work I recently imported from Finale, for me it is much harder to read compared with having the music colors non-inverted, but maybe it’s just me. I use dark mode for pretty much everything on my Mac, but for writing documents in MS Word and composing music in Dorico, I’m much better sticking with the default white background (I used a sepia background color in Finale when I was still using that, so maybe sepia is a good compromise?).
I take that back-trying to do sepia is even worse!
thanks. I think the issue isn’t the background, but the music document color itself. Unless I’m misunderstanding. I’m happy with the default setting, TBH. But do prefer dark mode for my browser, apps (except word and excel) etc.
@dtoub Your examples brought back a nightmare from my undergrad days: my organ professor asked if I would be interested in presenting a lecture recital on 16th and 17th century Dutch organ music, mostly chorale settings. I said sure. He said he had “Xerox” copies of numerous Dutch pieces not available in the US at the time and would bring to my next lesson.
These were early, true Xerox copies that were white on black. I took one look, removed them from the music rack and dropped them on the floor and said “you’ve got to be f&#*(!@ kidding!” He looked at me with that “I’m your professor and you will respect my wishes look” and then burst into laughter shouting “April Fools!” Yes, it was April 1, 1981.
He retired the following year with loads of anecdotes about his students over the years who fell for his trick whose lessons fell on April 1st or October 31st (Trick, not treat). To this day, I despise white on black for notation! But, to each their own with my full respect.
OT, but AFAIK all Xerox/xerographic machines used black toner on white paper. Some earlier photostatic processes produced white on black.
I remember making a copy on a machine in the local library (in the late 1960’s or early 1970’s) and being somewhat taken aback at the reversal of black and white. I think the machine was called a Docustat, and it was rather expensive so I didn’t fancy putting the first copy on the machine to see if it would then produce black text on a white background.
Some folks just love to correct others…sometimes that misses the point. My prof said it was Xerox copies, he’s now dead, so I suppose I should correct a dead man…
Well, I did say OT….
Xerox very quickly became a generic term for photocopies, although you don’t hear that so much anymore. I was reacting to your description of “early, true Xerox copies”, which I took to mean that you were saying that they were made by an actual Xerox-brand copier.
OK. Peace. 