Aesthetics in the middle of text

[leaena]

Hi Jeremy,

        newText("practiceinstructions", "We would not typically describe this scene using this sentence, because \"at least two\" leads us to expect more than two apples. You should ")
            .settings.after(newText("negative", "not").settings.italic())
            .settings.after(newText("number", " rate it a 6 or 7."))
        ,

Something is removing the leading and trailing white space, which I imagine is generally a thing that is desired. I tried adding more white space and escaping the white space, too, but it did not work. Is there a way to have a sub-section of a line of text in italics (or other style) without the spaces in between getting removed?

Thank you!
Leo

[Jeremy]

Hi Leo,

You could use HTML tags to apply a style to a portion of your text. Usually browsers render <em> as italics, and the tag <i> is sort of deprecated. The most reliable, universal solution would probably be <span style='font-style: italic;'> like this:

newText("practiceinstructions", "We would not typically describe this scene using this sentence, because \"at least two\" leads us to expect more than two apples. You should <span style='font-style: italic;'>not</span> rate it as 6 or 7.")

More generally though, when you want a trailing white space, you can add a non-breaking space using  

Jeremy

• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by Jeremy. Reason: Missed a '

[leaena]

Hi Jeremy,

Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately the code you posted does not work. It displays and otherwise functions, but the text stops after “should”.

Best,
Leo

[Jeremy]

Sorry, missed a ' between italic; and >

Jeremy

[leaena]

Apologies – it was just missing an end ‘. Thank you! It works indeed!

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