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I am not a CSS guy, let me say that out front.
Having said that, I cannot find the CSS folder. I searched the User Manual for CSS and no mention.
I would point you towards LESS, a leaner CSS which is more user friendly for CSS newbs like me. TaskPaper uses it. Maybe it is just a subset of CSS, I'm not really sure.
I would like the Default CSS but have the search field have a white background, if someone can point me in the right direction.
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Found the themes folder:
/Users/robok/Library/Application Support/MultiMarkdown Software/Themes
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Is it possible to have tags be a different color via CSS, both ones listed at top and those that are #tag format?
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Found the button to the Themes folder in the Preferences
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It sounds like you are conflating several things, but I could be mistaken.
CSS is used to "style" HTML. Less is actually a more complex "version" of CSS with additional features. You can use whatever you want to style your HTML -- the preview is simply a stripped down web browser, so anything that works in Safari should work in the preview (assuming it is done correctly accounting for sandboxing, etc.)
However, you discuss the search bar. This is not part of the HTML preview, and therefore CSS has no bearing here. Theme files are used to specify the appearance of the window and editor, as well as the syntax highlighting used in the editor. But again, none of this is HTML, so CSS (or Less for that matter) is of no use here.
Themes are written in JSON and the basic format is described here (http://support.multimarkdown.com/kb/composer-v4/multimarkdown-composer-v4-themes). The description has not been updated for nvUltra's variations to the theme format, but the concept is the same and the included Themes demonstrate what you need to provide your own customization.
And yes, the buttons to gain access to the CSS, Theme, Dictionary, and Expansion folders are all in the preferences, as you discovered.
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Thanks, yes I can see I was mixing things.
My idea on LESS was that TaskPaper uses it as a theme engine to allow end users to do a lot of interesting things that were easy for me to copy and tweak on my own. This would be an idea for the nvUltra Theme not the output.
I will look at the link you provided on Themes, thanks!
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In the Themes, is it possible to set it so tags are a different color, both ones listed at top and those that are #tag format?
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1. Taskpaper uses HTML for the editor. nvUltra does not.
2. Tags don't exist as part of the MultiMarkdown syntax, so they can't be colored independent of the content they are in. The "top" is metadata, and is styled as such. The `#tag` inline tags are simply text, and are colored just as they would be without the `#`.
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