SI Tip of the Day - light gray for deletions improves readability of SpecsIntact sections

UPDATE: If your project requirements include UFC 1-300-09N, Don't try this for anything you submit to the Government for review (because it conflicts with UFC 1-300-09N - but many projects may only UFC 1-300-02, which has less specifics on revision format). But whatever the case, you & your designers might really like it for internal use. Just remember to change it back before publishing design submittals.

This is a one-time change, even though it is done in the editor window. Open any section, click Format menu, Font, choose tag name Deletion, foreground color Light Gray (or Gray if you like). You can also change header and note to Gray (or Cyan if you are using Gray for deletions).

Here is the cool part - deletions now recede so it is much easier to pick out the retained text and new text at a glance, while still having the benefits of seeing in context the other options that may exist.

These settings are stored in C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Application Data\SpecsIntact\INI_Files\SECTION.INI, so you could easily have two copies of it saved somewhere to make switching back & forth much easier. Sometime when I get a chance, I might try to write a simple DOS batch program or Python script that makes this as easy as clicking a button.


Click thumbnail below to view an example: