[texworks] Changing font preference to bold
Moti Ben-Ari
moti.ben.ari at gmail.com
Fri Feb 24 11:36:28 CET 2023
Thanks, Jonathan. I could live with Consolas but after years (maybe it has
been decades) of Courier New it is hard to abandon it! I hope that someone
can help with the registry or that eventually bold will be a "preference".
On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 12:24 PM Jonathan Kew <jfkthame at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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