Font Menu

Formats related directly to font style are found under the Font menu (the "A " button). You can add HTML style tags to a selection of text either before or after you type it. By creating a selection of text with the mouse, you then select a physical or semantic text style from the Font menu. Alternately, if the cursor is inserted into the document but there is no selection, choosing an HTML style will insert the tags into the text surrounding the current insertion point – you are ready to type. Note that the Command keys for many HTML formats and Font styles can be found on the Palette Help display.

Consult with the A Beginner's Guide to HTML  for more details on each HTML font style. There are two types of HTML styles - physical and semantic. NCSA recommends that you use semantic styles when possible -- physical styles are derived from features of visual displays, while semantic styles are content-based. If an HTML tag is not supported by a browser, it should  be ignored. The styles supported by this version of HTML.edit (though not by all browsers) are:

   Physical Style
   Bold, Italic, Strikethru, Superscript, Subscript,
   Typewriter, Underline

   Semantic Style
   Citation, Code, Defining, Emphasis, Strong Emphasis, 
   Keyboard, Sample, Variable

These styles are defined in a modifiable table available on the Preferences card, under the HTML Preferences section.  

Index and Hilight Font Styles
Displays a list of instances of the chosen font style tags within the current document. To close the Index list, click on its close box. See also Index HTML. The Hilight HTML command hilights instances of the chosen tags within the current document.

Back to Heading Menu, on to Index HTML, or return to Tool Palette Menus.