Applying styles to select variables in a string

[Philipp]

Hi Jeremy,

in our experiment, we present participants with items consisting in a list of strings from a spreadsheet. Each part of the item, a sentence for example, is stored in a different column in a spreadsheet and concatenated during the trial. What I can’t figure out is how to make only the critical part of that sentence, say the variable.object bold:

PennController. Template( PennController.GetTable( "my_table.csv"),
                          variable => PennController( "my_trials",
                                                      newText("example_sentence", variable.subject+" "+variable.verb+" "+variable.adjective +variable.object)
                                                      .settings.css("font-size", "25px")
                                                      .settings.center()
                                                      .settings.bold()
                                                      .print()

As it is now, the entire sentence is bold. Calling any variation of the .settings.bold() method on the individual variable doesn’t help and bold(variable.object) doesn’t work either. Is there any easy way to do this?

Thanks in advance 🙂

[Jeremy]

Hi,

You can use the <strong> HTML tag to surround the part that you want to print in bold. Here’s what it would look like with the code you give (updated to use PennController’s more modern syntax)

Template( "my_table.csv" ,
  variable => newTrial( "my_trials",
    newText("example_sentence", variable.subject+" "+variable.verb+" "+variable.adjective+" <strong>"+variable.object+"</strong>")
      .css("font-size", "25px")
      .center()
      .print()

Let me know if you have questions

Jeremy

[Philipp]

Thank you so much! 🙂

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