Re: [BlueGriffon] changing font size

[Greg Chapman]

Hi Paul,

On 01 Sep 12 22:59 Paul Oman <in...@epoxyproducts.com> said:
> I cannot figure out where to change font size - default or
> highlighted text.

I think the reason for the slight delay in people answering your
question is that "default" and "highlighted" are not terms that
normally come within the web designers vocabulary. Had you asked How
do I set the size of text in a heading, paragraph, list or table, for
example, then it might have been easier to answer as BlueGriffon does
assume that you are creating a document properly using these, and
other, HTML structures.

Is the text which you call "default" one of those more common
structures? Let us know which one. And do you wish that same structure
(HTML tag) to have the same size throughout your site or just on the
current page? (This answer is perhaps the most important as it
determines whether you need to create a linked stylesheet or whether
an internal one will be sufficient.)

Greg Chapman
http://www.gregtutor.plus.com
Helping new users of KompoZer and The GIMP

[Jefferson Davis]

On Saturday, September 1, 2012 5:59:18 PM UTC-4, Paul Oman wrote:

I'm very new with bluegriffon (ungrading from old lotus V Page editor which doesn't run in windows 7) -  Question: I cannot figure out where to change font size -  default or highlighted text. 

paul

 

 Hello, I am also new to this program and am having problems resizing text. I am trying to make the heading text of my page larger. I can not find anything to do this but the heading 1, heading 2, and so on. I am trying to make the text even larger then what they offer. Any help would be great, thanks for your time. 

[k...@charlescooke.plus.com]

Changing heading level does alter the font size. However headings are not intended for that purpose but rather to indicate the level of importance of the text involved. h1 is they most important heading. It happens to be largest. Since it is the moist important there can be only one h1 element in a page. (There are some exceptions in html5 but you need to understand that before using it). h2 is the next most important level and you can have several of them.

Whatever level, or whatever other element, you use, you can change the font size using the Style properties panel. It comes in the General section listed as ‘size’.

[Greg Chapman]

Hi Jefferson,

On 31 Jul 13 13:54 Jefferson Davis <confederat...@gmail.com>
said:

> I am trying to make the heading text of my page larger. I can
> not find anything to do this but the heading 1, heading 2, and so
> on.

Having assigned the correct structural element, (e.g. the h1 tag) you
should then style it as you want.

To do that, with the cursor still within the heading go to:

Panels > Style Properties

That opens the Style Properties panel where you can control everything
about the appearance of the currently selected tag.

Decide whether all h1 headings are to appear this way or not and
select the appropriate option from the "Apply styles to" dropdown,
then work your way through the various options available, opening up
the blocks:

General
Colours
Geometry
etc.

Greg Chapman
http://www.gregtutor.plus.com
Helping new users of KompoZer and The GIMP

Still exploring BlueGriffon

[Greg Chapman]

Hi Charles,

On 01 Aug 13 10:41 k...@charlescooke.plus.com said:
> Changing heading level does alter the font size. However headings
> are not intended for that purpose but rather to indicate the level
> of importance of the text involved.

Good point, Charles!

In my answer I should not have made the assumption that <h1> was
chosen because the text concerned represented a heading.

The correct "structural element" could well have been <p> (for an
ordinary paragraph).

I should have made the point that it is important to distinguish
between a documents structure (whether any particular content
represents a heading, paragraph, list, table, etc.) and its styling
(colour, font, size, postion/layout on page, etc).