On Nov 6, 2007, at 3:24 AM, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
> > On 6 Nov 2007, at 10:53 AM, Jerry wrote: > >> How does one adjust the font and style and color etc. of the text in >> text boxes? It seems that the only control is via the Preferences >> dialog and thus one can't set e.g. italic for particular words. >> Sorry I wasn't clear in my original question. See my next comment, below. > > > View > Fonts > Show Fonts > Tools > Show Color > > Select the note, and then select a font or a color in the floating > panel. RTFM. Doing so changes all the text in the box. I still don't see how to change the style or color of selected text within the box. I'm used to doing this with comment boxes in Pages. > >> Also, at least when I use Helvetica 9 point for such text, the line >> spacing increases when I double-click to edit the text, then reverts >> to a very close line spacing when I click outside the box. This makes >> a cat-and-mouse game out of editing text and adjusting the text box >> to fit the text. >> > > The layout of text in the edited text note is done in an ordinary > text field. We can't control that, it's all Apple's standard private > code. We can only change the font. > >> It seems to me that text boxes should have the status of normal text >> a we are accustomed to elsewhere on the Mac such as in anchored >> notes. >> >> Jerry > > What do you mean with that? Being able to change the style or color of selected parts of the text. > > Christiaan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
