Text styling in the plugin GUI

[berkinet]

I am not sure if this is news. But, I have found that I can add arbitrary fonts and text styles (italic, bold, etc) to plugin GUI labels.

The trick was to use the Character Viewer and select the base character in the main characters window. Then, I chose the stylized character from the Related Characters sub-window.

What is also interesting is that I can add those same characters to a forum post and preview it, but when I try to submit it I get an sql error.

YMMV and Mattt or Jay will probably say this may be broken in a future release

[jay (support)]

Any Unicode character that's defined in your Mac's system font should work correctly. However, I don't see how you got a different font...

Note - the system font on Macs will vary at least based on the language used and there are other ways to change the system font. Therefore, depending on those is likely to cause some users problems who use a different font than the one you design with.

Just saying...

[berkinet]

Any Unicode character that's defined in your Mac's system font should work correctly. However, I don't see how you got a different font...

Surprised me too. I am not sure what defines the contents of the Related Characters pane. But, it looks like accented and stylized versions of the selected character in the selected category (Eg. Latin). So, If I select A, in the Related Character pane I see: aª...Á etc. (every variation on "A" in every latin language).

Note - the system font on Macs will vary at least based on the language used and there are other ways to change the system font. Therefore, depending on those is likely to cause some users problems who use a different font than the one you design with.

Just saying...

I agree. Though, I have now noticed that below the Related Characters pane is another Font Variations pane (scroll down to it). That contains the selected character in every installed font. Selecting something from this section definitely does not work.

[jay (support)]

Surprised me too. I am not sure what defines the contents of the Related Characters pane. But, it looks like accented and stylized versions of the selected character in the selected category (Eg. Latin). So, If I select A, in the Related Character pane I see: aª...Á etc. (every variation on "A" in every latin language).

Right - that's not changing the font - it's just Unicode variations on the character that are available in the current font.