I’m running Gramps 6.0.6 on a fedora 42. When I go to add a note for a person I’m not able to change the size of the font. l can make it Bold or Italics but can’t increase the font size from 10. Is this by design or am I not doing something correctly?
I think this is poorly implementation of font size functionality. Using Gramps 6.0.6 on macOS I can change the font size, but with difficulties. If I mark some text and select another font size, it works ok, but then I can’t change it back. Writing the font size - in stead of selecting from the drop down list - sometimes work better.
On the other hand, it’s not an issue for me as I never change font size in notes.
I run Gramps 6.0.6 under Fedora 43 with KDE Plasma desktop (but it does not matter since all GTK+ libraries are loaded).
It seems there is a poor implementation as @csam says. If I select a new font size from the menu, cursor location is lost in the note. I must click back in the edit widget and this resets to 10 pt default because choice in menu is not persistent. Same for font face menu.
But changing a selection works fine and continuing from the end of the selection shows face and size of the last character in previous selection (as expected). Changing back to 10 pt (or initial face) requires again to select some run of text.
I agree that it is poorly implemented! I do change font face and size since notes show up in reports and I prefer them to look nicely done.
Thanks, that does seem to work with lots of fiddling around I was able to get my desired result.
Too bad it just doesn’t use a regular editor and store the result as pdf!
I prefer not because PDF format does not allow editing (at least by default). It is a frozen display format. This means text reading continuity need not be preserved (everything comes down to a collection of graphical shapes set at specific x×y coordinates). And it explains why you can’t easily revert from PDF to other editable formats like ODF or DOCX.
You do I hope realise that you have the option of writing your report in odt format, apply your own custom style sheet that contains all the various bells and whistles you want [in LibreOffice, in “Manage styles”, you “Load Styles from Template”, and you can overwrite all paragraph and page styles, including inserting custom headers & footers, into the report generated from Gramps], and THEN export to pdf? Whoever wrote the Gramps [odt] reports code did an extremely good job of tagging all output paragraphs with different named styles. You need to spend a bit of time going through all the named styles in use in the report type you want, and setting them to the various fonts, sizes indents & spacings you want. But once you have invested an initial effort in that, you get to generate all further reports with your own custom formatting. A major text report [such as a Detailed Descendant Report] even for a very large family, can be completely reformatted in a matter of seconds, and the main thing that then needs to be done manually is to scroll through the entire odt and check the pagination—often you will want to add some additional manual page breaks to improve the flow for readers. I very rarely use any formatting within any type of note in Gramps, but do all of my formatting very quickly in the word processor before exporting to pdf.
Good to know, I didn’t have any idea you could do that. My mention of pdf was probably too quick in that any rich text editor would work. If on Linux use whatever the $EDITOR variable is set to or Windows use Notepad or whatever the rich text editor is.
I’ve been using the Narrated Web Site report since it is easily shared with a thumb drive with others in my family. What is strange is that on notes input in much earlier versions of Gramps where I changed the font size to 12 instead of 10 they come out much smaller than notes that were left at font size 10. I don’t understand why that is .
I guess that this proposes a new question, but I’ll try it here. Is it possible to edit a note in another editor and attach it to the person as a note?
I have seen something similar. I really appreciate the Blog function in Gramps Web, but if I in Gramps Desktop create a source with tag ‘blog’ and attach a note with some of the text in bold or italic, and then sync to Gramps Web the blog text often displayed with smaller font size. So I stopped doing any formatting in notes.