Re: Document attributes

From: Douglas G. Danforth <"Douglas>
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 10:05:48 -0400

Nope,

That doesn't work on the file I have.
Changing the size to 12 also changed everything
to bold even though nothing was specified for
Font or Font style.

Why? I have no idea.

-Doug


Greg Edwards wrote:
>
> You can use you the menu item attrib/typeface to change the font, and/or
> size etc without changing other attributes such as color, etc (though you
> can't do the "scale the font relative")... granted, I just discovered
> attrib/typeface about 3 weeks ago after using BB for years!
>
> -G
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Douglas G. Danforth [mailto:danforth{([at]})nowhere.xy
> Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2001 3:56 PM
> To: blackbox{([at]})nowhere.xy
> Subject: Document attributes
>
> Does anyone ever have the need to change a single attribute
> throught a document?
>
> I frequently do. For example to increase the type size from
> 10 point to 12 point. But what I really want is to increase
> the point size by 2 points so that if some stretch of text is
> already at 12 point I want that to go to 14 point etc.
>
> Another case is when I want to change from variable width
> to fixed width type but I wish to retain all the other
> attribute values as they were: Color, bold, underscore, etc.
>
> Selecting all of the text in a document and setting it to
> courier or 12 point does not do what I want since the other attributes
> get changed to uniform values throughout the document.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how to change only 1 attribute
> at a time?
>
> -Doug
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