Re: lookit all them colors !

["mhchoate" mhyerchoate@xxxxxxxx]

You might find this interesting too .... another thing XyWrite allowed me to
do! ....
Following is a sample "raw" index entry ... (the hyphen tells the programs
it is a locator comma, not a text comma) ... the 1312 is a sequence-of-entry
number.

Godfrey, Patricia,-107[1312]
I enter raw index data in any order I want to ... but usually by the page
.... . (next stage being alphabetizing and formatting --next stage being
clean it up and make it better, iteratively, until I run out of time, then
final stage a quality checklist)....
Sometimes I want to see the data, even after editing, back in page order
.... that is easy .... but resorting by the page, AND by the order on the
page doesn't happen -- unless you have a sequence number -- but I didn't
want to be looking at the clutter of that sequence number, in a formatted
index, with a string of such page numbers .... at least not looking at them
all the time.
Thanks to XyWrite, I had an easy way to hide it. I put it into a triangle.
(Hmm, why didn't I use RV? don't remember)
And I have a program to switch back and forth between seeing that 1312 as
[1312] ... or just a little triangle. And I have a program that erases these
sequence numbers completely when I know I don't need them any more. They
also serve as control numbers that help me troubleshoot problems.

Hooray for XyWrite.
Marge
----- Original Message -----
From: "Patricia M. Godfrey" 
To: 
Sent: Monday, June 04, 2007 11:09 AM
Subject: Re: lookit all them colors !
flash wrote:
Makes me
appreciate once again what a versatile program Xy is.

Indeed. I was reading her post with my mouth hanging open.
> there is no way to know whether you
see that same colors I do (Note to Auerbach: this is _not_ an
epistemological question).
Indeed again. When I was tweaking my color display, I found that values
that worked fine on one system would be almost invisible on another.
Screen colors are closely tied to hardware. I believe that really high-end
monitors now have some way of "calibrating" colors, so that the RGB set of
screens will match the CMK set of printouts--a BIG issue for publishers of
art books. I well remember having gone through an exhibition, then seeing
a calendar with prints of some of the paintings in the museum shop, and
even I could see that the colors were badly skewed.
--
Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx