Fonts and Colors
To change your font or your color, use the "Show Fonts" and "Show Colors" menu items in the Format menu. This works in messages, your profile, and status messages.
Details relating to messages |
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Ordinarily, messages are sent in plain text, with no explicit font nor color attached to them. You can add a font or color (or both) using the steps in the next section. |
Adding styles to a message |
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To add styles for one message, use the Show Fonts, Bold, Italic, Underline, or Show Colors menu item in the Format menu. You can also use the keyboard shortcuts for fast addition of simple styles.
Did you [⌘I]see[⌘I] that duck? Wow, what [⌘U]feathers[⌘U]! After the message is sent, the styles are dropped, and the next message is plain-text again. |
Changing the font in which plain text is displayed |
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Changing the default styles |
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(“Styles” here meaning the presence or absence of bold, italic, and underline.)
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Setting a default color |
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Follow the same procedure as to change the default styles. |
Clearing the default color |
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To revert to text having no color, set the default color to black using the procedure above. One difference: Even if you press Esc, the next message you send will still be explicitly black. The next message after that, and all messages thereafter (until you set a default color again), will have no color. |
The difference |
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The default font is used for the display of plain text; it is not sent over the wire. The default styles are applied to every message. The default color is applied to every message, unless it is black, in which case the message will have no color. |
Isn't this all one big mess? |
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Yes, it is. We'll iron this out in a future release. |