[texworks] Changing font preference to bold
Jonathan Kew
jfkthame at gmail.com
Fri Feb 24 11:24:38 CET 2023
Hi Moti -
This isn't exactly an answer to your question (I'm not really familiar
wit the Windows registry entries), but I wonder whether choosing a
different editor font would be helpful?
I know it's been a "standard" monospaced font for a long time, but
Courier New has often seemed uncomfortably light to me. You might find
that an alternative such as Consolas or Lucida Console would be easier
to read.
JK
On 24/02/2023 10:05, Moti Ben-Ari wrote:
> Hi Philip,
> The problem is that changes in Format/Font are local for that file only.
> If you want a global change you have to make it in
> Edit/Preferences/Editor and there is no selection for Regular/Bold/....
> Long ago I raised an issue requesting this but it has not been accepted.
> I found the workaround of changing the registry. It is not ideal because
> any change in the preferences rewrites the registry entry, but that's OK
> for me.
> Moti
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 11:57 AM Philip Taylor (Hellenic Institute)
> <P.Taylor at hellenic-institute.uk <mailto:P.Taylor at hellenic-institute.uk>>
> wrote:
>
> On 24/02/2023 08:04, Moti Ben-Ari wrote:
>> I have difficulty using the editor unless the font is bold. Since
>> it is not a preference, in v0.6.7 I was able to do so by changing
>> the fifth parameter of the Windows registry entry for font to 75:
>> Courier New,11,-1,5,75,0,0,0,0,0
>>
>> With v0.6.8 I tried the same thing but it doesn't work:
>> Courier New,11,-1,5,75,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1
>
> In the most recent version of TeXworks, Moti, (and, I believe in
> earlier versions), the bold version of a font (if available) can be
> selected through the GUI —
>
> * Format / Font... / [Font] MS Shell Dlg 2 / [Font style] {Regular
> | Bold} / [Size] {6..72} / [Effects] {Strikethrough | Underline}
> / [Writing System].
>
> --
> /Philip Taylor/
>
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