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### Red Letter Days appearance

This sub-pane determines how any RLDs will look in the particular calendar design. It has a unique feature because it provides for the selection of the two sets of RLD colours, which cannot be handled in the usual way via the main display. The sub-pane looks like the following screen-shot.
The top of the sub-pane repeats the Show RLDs and with RLD ‘added text’ option icons from the Toolpane and already described there.
The panel below that allows the user to choose how any RLD ‘added text’ will be shown if any date has more than one RLD defined for it. (The RLD added text is part of the RLD list saved independently from the calendar design - see ‘Red Letter Days (RLDs)’ later.)
In these multiple RLD cases the order in which the separate RLD text items appear is determined by their order in the RLD list files, but there is also a choice of layout. To help demonstrate this the screenshots below all use the same order of the items: “Easter Monday”, “Dog’s Birthday”, “Cat’s Birthday” but with different layout choices.

> On same line. In this case the multiple ‘added text’ items are concatenated with a back-slash (“\\\\”) separator.

> Stacked up
> Stacked down

The limit to the number of multiple items is set only by the restriction that the total length of the string (as in the ‘On same line’ screenshot above) must not exceed 255 characters - which includes the back-slash separator(s). This restriction applies to whichever layout choice is made. (There is probably a more potent restriction in practice because the RLD ‘added text’ really needs to fit within the date box ........)
Note that RLD dates and days are always in the same fonts/sizes as the normal dates and days: it is only their colours which can be made different.
Thus, the text controls in the bottom framed area concern only any RLD ‘added text’, which can be in a separate font/size and colour.
The two small white-background rectangles near the middle of the sub-pane are where the two sets of RLD colours are chosen: they are labelled ‘Main colours’ and ‘Alt colours’.
In each rectangle there is shown a sample Date (“21”), sample Day (“Monday”) and sample added text (“Birthday”) and each are in their current fonts and chosen RLD colours but, because of the limited space, their sizes in this sub-pane are all at a standard 12 point rather than their true sizes - which latter will be shown correctly on the main calendar display.
Each white-background rectangle acts as the focus for choosing the RLD colours. Pressing <menu> anywhere in one of these rectangles leads to a, by now, familiar-looking menu tree for choosing the colour of the RLD date text, day text, any added text and date/day boxfill. The action is then entirely similar to !Calibre’s main colour selections.
To avoid any confusion, if the RLD box-fill colour is chosen as White the top right corner of the focus rectangle changes colour to provide the necessary contrast. It will also be noticed that the option to make the RLD box transparent is not provided.
There may well be a wish to have an RLD design which alters the colours of the text items but leaves the box-fill colour as whatever is normal. This option is provided for in the first sub-menu leading from the ‘Boxfill’ menu item. Selecting the first sub-menu item ‘Use normal colour’ puts a tick against this item and any RLD box will then continue to have its normal fill colour. If this option is chosen the small coloured rectangle in the top right part of the corresponding White box will appear with an outline plus diagonals - which can be seen in the ‘Alt colours’ White box in the screen-shot at the start of this section. Using the Colour Picker window leading from the second sub-menu item will, of course, untick the first item again as soon as a specific RLD box-fill colour is chosen.
Which RLD colour set is to be applid to which RLD is determined b option choices in the RLD editing windows - see later.
Finally, when a date has multiple RLDs and they do not all use the same RLD colour set, any added text will be shown in the correct colour but, of course, the date/day/box colours can only use one RLD set. The policy adopted is that the set used for date/day/box colours will be the set chosen by the user for the last RLD on that date - determined by their positions on the RLD list (and with the active ‘one year’ list, if any, coming after the ‘permanent’ items).
This can be seen in the previous two screen-shots where the Added text items are in the colours from their chosen RLD set but the RLD box colour is that determined by the (last in list) ‘Cat’s Birthday’ item (Main colours chosen) rather than the ‘Dog’s Birthday’ item (Alt colours chosen).
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