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### Moon phases

This sub-pane, which is not available in Format 8, allows the four moon ‘quarters’ - as shown below - to be displayed/printed on appropriate dates:
The moon symbols are provided by the font CalMoon which is contained in the Defaults folder and loaded automatically on start-up. (You can, if you prefer, add this font to your permanent pool instead. See Tips, later.) Thus, the size of the symbols as well as their position can be chosen by the user in the usual way in the above sub-pane.
The only refinement is that there is also a choice of line thickness i.e. the thickness of the circular perimeter when it appears against an un-filled part of the symbol.
As mentioned briefly before, the colour of the moon symbol can be changed in the usual way from the menu which appears if <menu> is clicked on the main display window outside one of the defined calendar areas. (Remember that ‘no colour’ is not an option for the moon phase.)
It should be noted that the dates on which the moon phases appear are contained in the file MoonQuarters inside the Defaults folder. (This must not be deleted.) They are appropriate to GMT (UTC) and cover the range of years corresponding to !Calibre’s year limits 1999-2050. They are believed to be correct and have not been derived by using an average moon cycle.
An example screen-shot with moon-phases showing is below.
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