Fonts

Fonts

Fonts can be specified separately for the Wordlist View, the Scratchpad, and the two Context Views, centred and left-aligned. To add bold, italic, or underline effects, choose the buttons on the toolbar. To make other changes to fonts, such as font face, size, and colour, choose Font on the Headwords and the Contexts Menus.

The fonts and font attributes you have chosen will automatically be used when you choose Print or Print Preview, and will also be used when you save a concordance as HTML or build a Web Concordance.

Choice of Fonts

There are certain limitations on the choice of fonts. Print Preview requires that you choose a proportionally-spaced font. The File Viewer and File Editor use fixed-pitch (monospace) fonts such as Courier New.

In HTML, formatting text in columns may be done either by using tables or by using the so-called 'pre-formatted' attribute - <pre> in HTML. The latter makes sense for columns only if a fixed-pitch font is used. If you choose this way of formatting a Web Concordance and have a proportionally-spaced font selected in the Context View, you will be warned when you are about to build the Web Concordance.

Fonts, Languages, and character sets

Concordance's Language and Font Control makes it easy to choose fonts and character sets for particular languages. Pressing Apply Font and Character Set throughout program in that dialog will override font settings in those windows which allow their fonts to be set independently, such as the Wordlist view, the Context views, the Pick and Stop List managers, etc.

Hence it is easiest to use the Language and Font Control and press Apply Font and Character Set throughout program to change languages and scripts (character sets), and then to apply any cosmetic changes (font colour, size, etc.) directly to the Wordlist and Context views, etc. This same sequence will be applied to restore your font choices whenever you re-start the program.