Questions about text formatting

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Hello,
I have two questions about text formatting.

  1. How can you center the text within a textbox stimuli? Similar to what the normal text stimuli does by default. I’ve tried adding textbox.alignment = 'center' in code component, without luck.

  2. How can you make normal text stimuli in italic? Here I’ve tried setting text.italic = True in a code component. I saw some documentation about setting the font as an italic, but I do not know the exact name of the italic font for Open Sans.

Thanks in advance.

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Hi,

I am not sure about your questions, but I suggest to present formatted text using an image (e.g. create a powerpoint slide and format your text there, than take a capture of your screen) instead of a textbox component.

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Thank you for your answer, but unfortunately I’m reading a lot of data from an Excel sheet and using the variables as text stimuli.
It would be a lot of unnecessary work for this particular experiment…

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Are you wanting the participant to edit the text in the textbox?

Are you wanting a whole block of text to be in italics or just some of the words?

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Just visual stimuli and no editing. The whole component is meant to be in italic, yes.

With the textbox I get italics, but left alignment. And with normal text stimuli I get no italics, but center alignment. I want center alignment and italics, both with and without a textbox border for different components.

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Odd.

I’ve just been playing about with code such as:

text.fontFiles = [‘OpenSans-Italic.ttf’] # load file(s)
text.font=‘OpenSans-Italic’ # set to font

and

text.italic = True

with no success despite the documentation.

Have a go at creating the textStim in code and add the parameter italic=True at the point of creation.

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