Dear all, Is there a way to make one part of the text in the text component in the builder bold? Couldn’t find the right information on how to do this. Is there a way (in the component or otherwise in a new code component?)? Best regards, Sanne [Screen Shot 2020-08-27 at 2.07.06 PM] If this tem…

Unfortunately there is not, bold is a property of the entire text component, not of each letter, so you can only set it to be either all bold or all not. Now that we have a Textbox component which deals with each letter as it’s own “glyph”, this is more possible to implement, but the Textbox is stil…

Thank you for your response. Good to know then I will not spend any more time looking for solutions. I will try and otherwise just not make it bold, the option with space sounds as if they could cause errors/ugly screens. However, if I want to make text bold, how can I do this in the text component…

If you replace your Text component with the new Textbox component then that has an attribute called “bold”, currently it’s under Format but (especially as it’s in Beta) we may be moving it soon.

Addendum: in the new TextBox2 you can make a single letter bold as well! I’ve set it to use the old-school html tags of around the letters you want bold (and similarly for italics). Note that this is a “fake” bold/italic where we don’t actually use the font designer’s bold character.…

@ TParsons and jon That sounds great. Where can I find this new text component? I only see one in the Builder… (version 3.2.4)

I think, you’d need to use a code component. I couldn’t find online documentation, but from the interactive shell in the coder view, you can read the docstring with: from psychopy import visual help(visual.TextBox2)

This is added in 2020.2 and documentation is to follow

Hi Jon, Is there a way to also get this to work with text pulled from a conditions file or code? I’m getting a syntax error whenever there’s a $ in the textbox. [textbox_capture]

Ah, that’s a bit of confusion over the use of $ $ doesn’t quite mean “this is a variable” it means “treat this (all) as code” In your case the code you want would be one of the following (they are equivalent): " "+Word+" - "+captured_string " %s - %s" %(Word, captured_string) "…

Hi @jon , Is there anyway to do the same thing for underline (ie, underlining 1 word in a sentence)? I’ve also tried to run $'NOT UNDERLINE ' + '\033[4m' + 'UNDERLINE' + '\033[0m' + ' NOT UNDERLINE' (hoping it will be equivalent to print('NOT UNDERLINE ' + '\033[4m' + 'UNDERLINE' + '\033[0m' + ' …

Make one letter bold in text component

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wakecarter October 13, 2023, 9:33pm 17

Conversely it seems that we now have a way of displaying bold online which doesn’t work locally.

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Make one letter bold in text component

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