Chapter 11. Taking Notes with Tomboy / 11.5. Formatting Text in Notes | ||||
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 | 11.4. Accessing Your Notes | 11.6. Exporting Notes to HTML |  | |
Chapter 11. Taking Notes with Tomboy / 11.5. Formatting Text in Notes | ||||
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| 11.4. Accessing Your Notes | 11.6. Exporting Notes to HTML | | |
You can use the button on the Tomboy toolbar to format text within your notes. The button displays a drop-down menu with the following options:
Undo: Allows you to revert previous changes made to your note during the current session. To undo your last change using the keyboard, press Ctrl-Z.
Redo: Allows you to put back changes that were removed using the feature. To redo your last change using the keyboard, press Shift-Ctrl-Z.
Bold: To make text within your note bold, select the text you want to modify, then select the option from the drop-down menu. You can also press Ctrl-B after selecting text.
Italic: To make text within your note italic, select the text you want to modify, then select the option from the drop-down menu. You can also press Ctrl-I after selecting text.first select the text
Strikeout: Puts a line through the selected text. To add a strikeout, select the text you want, then select the option from the drop-down menu. You can also press Ctrl-S after selecting text.
Highlight: Puts a yellow background around the selected text. To add a highlight, select the text you want, then select the option from the drop-down menu. You can also press Ctrl-H after selecting text.
Fixed Width: The fixed width style allows text to use a fixed width font. To change existing text, select the text you want to modify, then select the option from the drop-down menu. You can also select the option from the drop-down menu before you start typing to have the text you type be in a fixed width style.
Font Size: There are four options in this part of the menu: , , , and . Each of these options represents a font size you can use for the selected text in the note. To modify the font size, select the text you want to modify, then select one of the options from the drop-down menu.
Bullets: Select the option from the drop-down menu to begin or end a bulleted list. If your cursor is inside a bulleted list, the and options are enabled.
For more information on bullets, see Section 11.5.1, “Using Bulleted Lists”.
Increase Indent: With the cursor on a bulleted list line, select this option to shift the current line to the right.
Decrease Indent: With the cursor on a bulleted list line, select this option to shift the current line to the left.
Find in This Note: Lets you search for text within the current note. Selecting this option causes a bar to open at the bottom of the note. To open the bar using the keyboard, press Ctrl-F.
Enter the text you want to find. After entering text, any matches are highlighted. Click to highlight the next match and place the cursor there. Click to move to the previous match.
Use the checkbox to limit the matches to ones that exactly match the case of the search string.
To close the find bar, click on the far left or press the Escape key.
To begin a bulleted list, use any of the following methods:
Select from the drop-down menu.
Start a line of text with a single dash character (-), type text immediately following the dash, then press Enter.
To end a bulleted list, do any of the following:
Select from the drop-down menu.
Press Enter on a blank bulleted line.
Select from the drop-down menu until the current line is no longer part of the bulleted list.
Press Shift-Tab until the current line is no longer part of the bulleted list.
To increase the line indentation in a bulleted list, select from the drop-down menu, or press the Tab key.
