Best practice for Big Screen and Dark Theme

Question

Dear All,

As I am working with a very big screen/monitor with virtual screen, what can be some of the best practices and guidelines of using paratext 9. I found using dark theme/mode can be very helpful. I found such feature in paratext lite, how can I enable the same feature in regular Paratext 9.

Thanks,
anon221954

Answer 1

Some tips:

1. There are lots of training videos here
2. Move tabs from one place to another by click-dragging their title bar to a new location. A blue highlight will preview what the result will be (but not always exactly, depending on whether the moved item will create a new panel or not).
3. Right click a tab’s title bar to Move to Autohide or dock/undock it from the main window.
4. Use tabs to group several things in the same panel, especially things you don’t need to see at the same time.
5. Drag windows to the very edge of the main window to dock them to the whole height or width of the application.
6. Some tools open as floating windows by default, but you can dock a lot of them, such as Biblical terms and Wordlist (we’re working towards even more things being dockable). That said, some tools don’t work too well docked because they require a fairly wide panel to show all of their UI, compared to projects and resources. That’s why they usually open as floating windows.
7. By default, Project Notes and Biblical Terms Renderings both open below the current project. I like to either squish one of them down to just the height of the title bar to save space when I am not using that tool, or I make those windows tabs in a single panel.
8. Use Download/Install resources to get useful text resources such as Enhanced resources (filter the download/install resources dialog using the character “+” to see Enhanced Resources). Also download handbooks and translators notes (filters: “handbook” and “notes”).
9. Open a Text collection to show lots of reference texts or projects in one place. Press Ctrl+E to switch it between one or two pane view. Right-click texts in a text collection to zoom them individually or move them up/down in the window.
10. Open an Enhanced Resource and use it to track the biblical terms in your current project. Paratext will highlight found or guessed renderings in your project and dynamically keep track of them in the Enhanced Resource window.
11. Pressing Alt opens the menu for the currently active tab.
12. Pressing Alt+F (or Alt+P, W, L, H) opens the main menu.
13. Arrow keys and Enter navigate within the menus.
14. Restart Paratext daily, Send/Receive often.

If you’re not sure how to do any of the above, type a keyword into the Search menus/help box in the title bar of Paratext for instructions.

I’m sorry to say we don’t yet have a dark theme. For technical reasons, it’s harder to do in Paratext than you might expect. Theming and accessibility are high on our list of priorities.