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[Ringo P <ringo@erratica.solutions>]

Okay. Second problem solved first with an embarrassingly easy solution, 
the 'profile' spec of a notebook's 'properties' allows me to use a 
separate style.conf for each notebook. Still figuring out background 
colour. If anyone's around to take pity on me that would be appreciated.

On 01/02/15 10:53, Ringo P wrote:
> Most of what I want to ask is in the subject line. Is it possible to 
> change the background colour of a notebook, and is it possible to 
> apply different style options to different notebooks on the same profile?
>
> In (slightly) more depth, my situation is that after five years using 
> a single private Zim notebook I've started also using Zim to build a 
> personal public website using a separate notebook. I'm spending a fair 
> amount of time with both notebooks open, switching between public 
> notes and private notes. It would make my life easier if I could set 
> the background of the public notebook to (say) a light green and the 
> private notebook to (say) a light red.
>
> As far as I can tell at the moment it seems like it may be possible to 
> change the background colour if only I could figure out how. I've 
> noticed the distraction free plugin specifies a different background 
> colour with the tag "bgcolor=" and tried using a similar tag under the 
> main page view section of preferences.conf but that doesn't work.
>
> Using a different set of preferences for each notebook seems more 
> difficult. Is this currently possible, and if so how? If not, is it 
> plausible that it might be implemented in the future and would it be 
> worth filing a bug report/feature request?
>
> Many thanks in advance to anyone who can help point me in the right 
> direction, and many thanks in any case to the developers for an 
> awesome piece of software.


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RINGO