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From: Erilar on 5 Aug 2010 19:31 Continuing to fight Pages. . . New question: what have they done to keyboard shortcuts? I wanted to put some book titles into italics. Nothing in their "styles". Finally found it in "format" ??? And when I try to end a style and go back to plain text, I get some "tools" that don't include plain text as a choice. I've also tried to make something "bold" with a shortcut that has worked since the Apple lle and nothing happens. What is going on here? -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist
From: Gerry on 5 Aug 2010 20:33 In article <986070826302743477.811055drache-chibardun.netinvalid(a)news.eternal-septe mber.org>, Erilar <drache(a)chibardun.netinvalid> wrote: > Continuing to fight Pages. . . > New question: what have they done to keyboard shortcuts? I wanted to > put some book titles into italics. Nothing in their "styles". Finally > found it in "format" ??? And when I try to end a style and go back to > plain text, I get some "tools" that don't include plain text as a > choice. I've also tried to make something "bold" with a shortcut that > has worked since the Apple lle and nothing happens. What is going on > here? You didn't say what keyboard shortcuts you are using. To make text bold use Command Key + B, for italics Command Key + I, they are there in the format menu, now to go back to plain text after making a word bold you just have to press Command Key + B, all text shortcuts are dual purpose, they turn it on, they turn it off. I don't do back to the Apple II, just the orignal Mac, and the only difference along time ago was you had to add the shift key to get Bold & Italic. The format commands are not particular to Pages, but works the same in other text applicaitons. You should actually use the Command Key + T to bring up the Text pallet where you can easily select what font and what weight & size you wish to use.
From: gtr on 6 Aug 2010 00:00 On 2010-08-05 16:31:50 -0700, Erilar said: > Continuing to fight Pages. . . Just submit. > New question: what have they done to keyboard shortcuts? I wanted to > put some book titles into italics. ⌘i > Nothing in their "styles". Finally > found it in "format" ??? And when I try to end a style and go back to > plain text, I get some "tools" that don't include plain text as a > choice. I've also tried to make something "bold" with a shortcut that > has worked since the Apple lle and nothing happens. ⌘b > What is going on here? It's so sad. So very very sad. I assume you've got a font selected that doesn't HAVE a bold or italic. In the past 25 years I assume I've learned at least 15 word processors in detail. I stopped crying about it with maybe the fourth or fifth. -- If God didn't want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat?
From: erilar on 6 Aug 2010 10:49 In article <everyday-07938A.17331905082010(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Gerry <everyday(a)sunrise.net> wrote: > You didn't say what keyboard shortcuts you are using. To make text bold > use Command Key + B, for italics Command Key + I, they are there in the > format menu, now to go back to plain text after making a word bold you > just have to press Command Key + B, all text shortcuts are dual purpose, > they turn it on, they turn it off. I don't do back to the Apple II, just > the orignal Mac, and the only difference along time ago was you had to > add the shift key to get Bold & Italic. The format commands are not > particular to Pages, but works the same in other text applicaitons. I had just been battling Pages on both computer and iPad, which I was posting from that time. OK, until Pages, I could use bold or italic on most fonts in my font menu. �I'm not sure why AppleWorks could do it and Pages can only do it with some fonts--and the font list in the iPad's Pages is REALLY limited. �When I moved some of my bibliographies into the iPad's Pages, it changed half the fonts. �I used font difference to indicate different categories of books, colors for other purposes. �That's how I could keep using a WP for them rather than a data base. �Since iWork doesn't include a data base program, this turns out to be a Good Thing. �Fonts I've used for many years are unavailable, including my favorite because it's so legible and, for me, comfortable: Comic Sans. �I do NOT like Helvetica, though it's not as horrible as Courier, at least, and that's the default. �Most of the fonts allowed do NOT allow me a choice of bold and italic, however. �To change fonts I have to scroll down far past the initially-visible choice, which are all things like "headline", "bullet", and such(for me) irrelevancies, to the very bottom for fonts, then off to a list of fonts available, which I have to try one by one to find out which ones allow "bold", "italic", �"strike through", sometimes "regular" and "light"--but only occasionally all of them. �Sometimes it's EITHER bold or italic. Finally, after fighting with the program for some time, I realized what had been throwing me: I had to tell it "bold" a second time to turn it off. This has probably been the case for a long time, but previously, Command + T changed it back to plain text. > > You should actually use the Command Key + T to bring up the Text pallet > where you can easily select what font and what weight & size you wish to > use. Yes, on the laptop. Half my problem was how to do the same on the iPad. -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo
From: erilar on 6 Aug 2010 10:55 In article <986070826302743477.811055drache-chibardun.netinvalid(a)news.eternal-septe mber.org>, Erilar <drache(a)chibardun.netinvalid> wrote: > Continuing to fight Pages. . . Next battle turned out to be a draw. When I began with a graphic, the iPad's Pages refused to let me add text except in the header or footer! So I tried using one of their %^&(*()&()%^* templates, wiping out their things and pasting in some graphics and text of my own, but I had to wipe things one by one and replace them one by one. NOT worth the effort. Then I took their blank template and started experimenting with text alone. (That's when I finally figured out what had happened to the fonts.) This one I did resolve, but only partially. I can add text boxes to the same graphic with the laptop's Pages, though it's harder than with AppleWorks. THEN I can import the one with the text boxes to Paddy and they stay there. The problem with this solution is that it only works at home, where I have both laptop and iPad together. The graphic in question is a map I'll want to annotate when I'm away from home. I'm going to have to try to figure out what else I'll want to do that to before I leave. -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo
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