Can Textpad highlight text?

[jjohnson78214]

I just want to highlight text so that it'll be easier to locate.

Jim Johnson

[ak47wong]

You can leave bookmarks on lines that you want to return to later. The bookmark commands are on the Search menu. Does that help?

[jjohnson78214]

I wanted also to color code the content text.

[ak47wong]

As far as I know there's no way to do this. You can:

• Highlight the current line
• Highlight text according to a syntax definition file
• Change the colour of the bookmark symbol

But I don't think any of those are what you're after.

[jjohnson78214]

Thanks for your kindness.

Jim

[ACRobin]

One possibility would be to create a syntax file for a new document class - may not fit your needs, but if you have constant text in a document that you what to highlight then this may be a method.

Have a read up in the help.

[kengrubb]

jjohnson78214,

May I ask what sort of file this is?

.txt, .ini, .etc

[jjohnson78214]

Hi, the file type I'm working with is just a text file. I just want to highlight some text highlighted for emphasis.

[kengrubb]

I created a Class for .tx2 files. Plain text, but with Tabs converted to Spaces and Trailing Spaces automatically stripped.

You could do the same thing here. Make it .tx2 (or whatever), create a new Class, and create a Syntax Definition for it.

A perhaps less onerous route might be to use a Word Processor. There is the one made by You Know Who, but it costs, and if you don't already have it I cannot see spending the money. However, OpenOffice.org is totally free.