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The text window display/fonts panel

The text window display/fonts panel

Select Text display/fonts... (Options menu, Shift Ctrl D) to open the text display/fonts panel. The panel is primarily a font selector for text windows, but it also lets you set the fonts for the info browser and dialog panels, and a number of display options for text windows.

The information displayed in the text display panel can be set individually for each text window mode and for dialog panels.

The first row of the panel defines what information you are changing. Switch modes using the menu at the top right of the panel; choose whether you are changing the roman or typewriter font on the top left.

The second row of the panel contains global parameters for the selected font set. The displayed font family names are restricted to the values for spacing, resolution and encoding; the displayed styles are those available for the selected family; the sizes shown are those for the selected family in the selected style. The family and style are independent for roman and typewriter; a change of size is always applied to both fonts simultaenously.

Vertical cell padding applies to both panels and text windows; it defines how much extra white space is added between lines. When cell padding is zero, the line distance is taken from the roman font. This may be too small for a text window mode that makes use of the large style, such as a browser or the predefined LaTeX editing mode.

The Undo button will undo the changes you made to the font set since the last time Apply or OK was selected; Defaults will restore the built-in defaults (Adobe Helvetica/Lucida Typewriter).

To transfer a font set from one mode to another, select the first mode, switch to the other, select Undo, then Apply.

TEXT WINDOW SPECIFIC SETTINGS

When show all line feeds is selected, all line endings will be displayed symbolically (as LF, CR/LF or CR). When it is not selected, this is only done for lines ending in a non-unix style line feed (CR/LF for an MS-DOS file, CR for one created on a Macintosh).

Selecting opaque spaces will cause space characters to be displayed as `cups', so they can be counted and distinguished from true tabs; also useful if space characters at the end of a line should be distinguishable.

Show line numbers shows line numbers at the end of lines (except for lines which are longer than the window can display).

Selecting visible true tabs will cause true tabs (ASCII 9) in the text to be displayed as thin dotted lines, so as to distinguish them visibly from sequences of space characters (ASCII 32). This option is switched on in the default configuration.


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