[texworks] Video reversal in source window ?

[Charles Howard]

Thanks. I hadn't thought of changing to a high-contrast scheme, but
that will work for now.

I have to use windows for this, though I use linux for almost everything else.

2010/1/3 Stefan Löffler <st.loeffler at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> On 2010-01-02 20:46, Charles Howard wrote:
>> Is there any plan to enable video reversal in the source window, so
>> that text would be light coloured on a dark background?
>>
>> For people with weak eyesight, as I have, this would be a tremendous help.
>>
>
> Right now, this is not planned in particular. However:
> 1) I'd expect Tw to follow the general color settings of your interface.
> Though I'm not sure if there are any high-contrast schemes with inverted
> text areas for your operating system (I just checked, Tw works correctly
> with the inverted high contrast scheme in Ubuntu)
> 2) There is a workaround to customize the appearance of Tw documented at
> http://code.google.com/p/texworks/issues/detail?id=164#c11. You will
> need to run Tw from the command line for this, though (or it may be
> possible to adapt a shortcut for it).
>
> HTH
> Stefan
>