On 10 Nov 2007, at 12:25 AM, Jerry wrote: > > 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
Please keep in mind that Skim is a PDF viewer, and we don't own the PDF format, that's Adobe. Christiaan ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
