Fonts

[anvil...@gmail.com]

Hiya,

Can anyone tell me where the font options went? In user interface settings, it's only possible to change the size of the font. What happened to the dropdown menu there used to be where we could chose font style and size, like in Word? I much preferred that. Doesn't make sense it's disappeared.

Cheers,

Charlie

[Peter T.]

On Tuesday, January 10, 2023 at 1:36:08 PM UTC+1 anvil wrote:

Can anyone tell me where the font options went?

Here you go:

Remember, this is just about rendering for on-screen working.

You will have to set the fonts for printing with another application in the exported file. Or with LaTeX, if you use that.

Cheers, 

Peter

[Peter T.]

On Tuesday, January 10, 2023 at 8:36:37 PM UTC+1 Peter T. wrote:

You will have to set the fonts for printing with another application in the exported file. 

In case you want to have different fonts and sizes in your text.  

[Simon Haynes]

If you mean changing the User Interface font, you can only set the size now

If you mean changing fonts in the text itself:

The font drop-down in the editor window was removed a long time ago, because it led to a lot of customer support emails where people thought the program supported changing fonts in only certain sections of the text.

Since I use yWriter primarily to publish to ebook, where the reader ignores all font settings except bold/italics/etc, this feature was superfluous. (I'm also using my own markup language now instead of saving each file as RTF)

When printing to physical books I use the Latex export, and so I set up <TEX  latex commands here /TEX> variables like "SpecialFontOn" and "SpecialFontOff"

My text then looks like [SpecialFontOn]this when I want to use a different font in print[SpecialFontOff]

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[The Story Smith]

Hi,

That's a bummer. I went on the assumption that most writers are intending to export and send to agents and publishers, and they always ask for Times New Roman, 12 pt, etc. which is industry standard.

Thanks,

Charlie

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On Jan 11 2023, at 5:21 am, Simon Haynes <spac...@gmail.com> wrote:

If you mean changing the User Interface font, you can only set the size now

If you mean changing fonts in the text itself:

The font drop-down in the editor window was removed a long time ago, because it led to a lot of customer support emails where people thought the program supported changing fonts in only certain sections of the text.

Since I use yWriter primarily to publish to ebook, where the reader ignores all font settings except bold/italics/etc, this feature was superfluous. (I'm also using my own markup language now instead of saving each file as RTF)

When printing to physical books I use the Latex export, and so I set up <TEX  latex commands here /TEX> variables like "SpecialFontOn" and "SpecialFontOff"

My text then looks like [SpecialFontOn]this when I want to use a different font in print[SpecialFontOff]

On Tue, 10 Jan 2023 at 20:36, anvil...@gmail.com <anvil...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hiya,

Can anyone tell me where the font options went? In user interface settings, it's only possible to change the size of the font. What happened to the dropdown menu there used to be where we could chose font style and size, like in Word? I much preferred that. Doesn't make sense it's disappeared.

Cheers,

Charlie

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[William Walls]

I would export as a .docx file and format the output during your proofread. That's generally going to be the format agents and publishers will require manuscripts to be in, anyway.

[Simon Haynes]

You can set the font for the whole document. It's just fixed - e.g. Times 12 throughout, not one sentence in Times and another in Palatino.

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[ZOIYYK]

Sorry for necromancing this post.

Is this still like that? Not being able to use different fonts on the same text?

I thought epubs could be created with embedded fonts so e-readers could display them correctly even if they didn't have the right ones installed.

I was experimenting with the usage of different fonts under some circumstances and it could become kind of unpractical to have to export to *.docx file and do all the formatting on each version. (I know I might not work in a reasonable way, that's why I'm only asking for information instead of suggesting to add the feature).

[Simon Haynes]

It's definitely not designed to be a wysiwyg word processor, it's novel-writing software.  If people want to include special formatting to denote different fonts and then replace those with styles in Word/Openoffice afterwards using a macro, that would be one way to deal with embedding font changes.

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[Peter T.]

On Sunday, September 21, 2025 at 11:16:42 AM UTC+2 ZOIYYK wrote:

I know I might not work in a reasonable way, that's why I'm only asking for information instead of suggesting to add the feature).

I once suggested a way to insert HTML code into the text via project variables (global variables may also work). 

Have a look at this thread: 

https://groups.google.com/g/ywriter/c/bDSiOVZ-f8w/m/AMEv3u8IAAAJ

So if you are familiar with css, you can define your stylesheets and assign the corresponding "span" tags to global variables. This is easy to handle and should work for ebooks. 

If you prefer exporting to a word processor instead, you can "misuse" existing formatting, e.g. underline, and have your wordprocessor replace the formatting with a suitable character style. 

Incidentally, I couldn't find a way to make LaTeX use several different font faces in one document. 

 

[Simon Haynes]

You can use <TEX and /TEX> to include latex commands, or just put <TEX> at the top of the scene if the whole thing is in Latex.

After that you should be able to use whatever the latex command is to change font/typeface.

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[Peter T.]

On Sunday, September 21, 2025 at 5:06:38 PM UTC+2 Simon Haynes wrote:

You can use <TEX and /TEX> to include latex commands, or just put <TEX> at the top of the scene if the whole thing is in Latex.

After that you should be able to use whatever the latex command is to change font/typeface.

Not to mention the possibility of combining TEX and HTM tags in the suggested way in the project or global variables to create multiple media types.

Actually, I wanted another font for the chapter headings, and I wasn't familiar enough with LaTeX to handle multiple font package imports. 

It's probably possible with fontconfigure or something like that, but I gave up on LaTeX after ordering a few sample paperbacks because I liked the results with OpenOffice better.