Color and text

[Gilbert Grosdidier]

Hello,

I'm a newbie with BBEdit use.

I was unable to find any help about some very simple actions : while in a plain text document, here is a bunch of text :

"ACPI To Reset RHUBs (May Conflict With Existing  SSDT)"

- how could I put "reset" in bold ?

- how could I put "existing" in red ?

- how could I put "Conflict" before green background ?

 Many Thanks, Regards, Gilbert.

[Bucky Junior]

Congratulations on your finding one of the best text editing programs around…if not THE best.

BBEdit is a text editing program and I think you’re asking to be a word processor. It isn’t.

BBEdit does some text coloring on the screen but it is used for highlighting snippets of programming code. Code like HTML, perl, C, Python and a bunch of other programming languages. It is only colored within the BBEdit program. It’s not saved to a disk.

I suppose it would be possible to write something, then code it with word processing styles in HTML, open it in a web browser and view it or print it from that but that would be exceedingly clumsy.

E.g., <b>reset</b> then <span style=“color:red”>existing</span> followed by <span style=“background-color:green”>Conflict</span>

What a mess! There are some shortcuts by adding CSS, but that’s another story.

Since you have BBEdit, I’ll assume that you probably have a Mac, in which case you have Apple’s Pages, a word processor. That should easily allow you to stylize text in a multitude of ways.

BBEdit does amazing stuff. I have the application running all the time. The user manual can be your friend.

Best wishes.

[Rick Gordon]

You need a word processing program for that sort of thing. Nisus Writer Pro is excellent, in that it has very robust regular expression support (among other things), which I find essential, especially after years of BBEdit use.

You can save a BBEdit file as styled text, which will retain all its colors on import to Nisus.

Rick Gordon

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From:	Gilbert Grosdidier <gilbert.g....@orange.fr>
To:	BBEdit Talk <bbe...@googlegroups.com>
Date:	Fri, 13 Oct 2023 09:14:44AM GMT-07:00
Subject:	Color and text

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