On Nov 7, 2007, at 8:42 AM, The Org Dork wrote: > On 11/7/07 5:00 AM, "Christiaan Hofman" wrote: > >>> Doing so changes all the text in the box. I still don't see how to >>> change the style or color of selected text within the box. I'm used >>> to doing this with comment boxes in Pages. >> >> Ask Adobe and Apple. Don't hold your breath. > > Thankfully (and logically) this is not a provided feature. > > Notes are "notes", they are not formatted books. > > It's better -- I think -- to spend time on reading and taking > notes, and not > on trying to micro-format words in a short note. > > If you want to set-off one word, for your own memory, then use your > own > *style* indicators, so that you can remember that you __really__ > wanted to > highlight some exact word. > > In the case that you (the original poster) find that you really > want to > write a formatted response to a piece of writing, open up your > basic text > editor and bold/underline/italicize until your heart is content. > > A tiny note box is not the place to start formatting your > dissertation. > > -- > Gary > It's probably not a great idea to tell me what features I would like or to respond to a reasonable post with repeated uses of sarcasm. I write a lot and prefer not to give up a range of expressive features in the notes boxes relative to most of the rest of the places where I type text. One of the ways in which I hope to use Skim is in reviewing manuscripts that are sent to me for possible publication and I would like to communicate with the authors as fully and as accurately as I can. I understand from Christiaan's post that he is using an ordinary text field to hold the note text, which of course is reasonable and which I did not know before. As I noted in my post, anchored notes are apparently stored in a way that allows fuller formatting, probably using Apple's latest and greatest text processing API's. Also, as I noted in my original post, Pages.app allows formatted text in its notes boxes) so I know we have the technology.
The next time I have a few minutes to spend exploring Skim will be towards finding if there is any opportunity for pasting graphics--I would personally find it useful to paste PICT or PDF equations as part of my review process or to overlay PICTs or PDFs of plots and the like onto the main page images. But that's probably getting into the realm of Create and its ilk. Jerry ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Skim-app-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/skim-app-users
