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[Cody Jackson <supertanker13@xxxxxxxxx>]

I stand partially corrected, David.

Browsing through the source code reveals at line 431 of kabikaboo.py a
commented-out section of code that, when uncommented, activates the
use of Control+B, Control+I, and Control+U for Bold, Italic, and
Underline. At line 2882 of the same file there appears to be code for
a font editing toolbar(!!!), although I have no idea how to enable it.

In fact, it looks like there's even preliminary code for
bulleting/numbering, although the only evidence of it looks like
toolbar stuff at about line 927 of kabikaboo.py

Unfortunately, the current filesave system doesn't appear to save text
with formatting, but at least it's more tenable knowing that this
stuff exists in the source code (albeit unused(?) at the moment). Will
keep you posted if I figure out anything new...

Cheers,
Cody Jackson

On 7/4/10, Cody Jackson <supertanker13@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello, David:
>
>> Hi Guys
>> great outlining tool you've made here, thanks!  This is going to help me
>> as
>> I write my next film.  There extra little details which I really like -
>> the
>> tabs, the autosave options.
>
> Glad you find it useful!
>
>> A request from me is to allow for advanced text formatting.  I tend to
>> want
>> to use bold, italic etc as well as bullet points / numbering within my
>> pages.
>
> Unfortunately, as a 'junior' developer (I was responsible for the
> Win32 builds and little more--I'm not much of a Python programmer) I
> don't know if this can/will be implemented. It's on the 'blueprints'
> list and is a popular request--one that I'd like to see myself, but
> the GtkSourceView library that is used to display the text in each
> node doesn't appear to give us any practical way to implement this.
> The other main developers have both had attacks from the dreaded Real
> Life (TM) monster, and their involvement in the project has
> diminished. Perhaps some other text widget would allow us to implement
> this? Sorry, mate!
>
>> Keep up the good work!
>
> We'll do our best...
>
>> David
>>
>
> Cheers,
> Cody Jackson
>