Creating bold or italic words in Pleco

[pprendeville]

Is it possible to type bold and italic words in Pleco like in Skritter. In Skritter, putting an asterisk at the beginning and end of a word makes it bold and using underscores at either side make it italic.

 

[mikelove]

At the moment that's difficult - have to insert some weird custom format characters that either need to be copy-and-pasted in from somewhere else or inserted on your computer. It'll be getting much easier when we overhaul flashcards, though.

 

[Graham Sanders]

I would like to boldface words in the definitions of a user-created dictionary. Has there been an update to do this easily? If not, can you let me know what the custom format characters are that you mentioned above? Thanks!

 

[Shun]

Hi Graham,

For Pleco 3.2, it should work with special reserved Unicode characters. See this post:

Multiple new lines in user defined flashcards

Perhaps this the flashcard exchange thread but hope to reach a larger audience here. Is there a way to introduce new lines in user generated definitions so that difference "meanings" can be numbered and start on new lines (i.e. formatted line the cards generated from dictionary entries)?

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[Graham Sanders]

Hi Graham,

For Pleco 3.2, it should work with special reserved Unicode characters. See this post:

Multiple new lines in user defined flashcards

Perhaps this the flashcard exchange thread but hope to reach a larger audience here. Is there a way to introduce new lines in user generated definitions so that difference "meanings" can be numbered and start on new lines (i.e. formatted line the cards generated from dictionary entries)?

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Thanks, Shun. I'm not conversant with how to use these tags. Can you give me an example of what the source text (UTF-8) of a definition field would read like with a bolded word in it?

For example:

I want *this* to be bold.

What would I type in place of the asterisks?

(I'm using Android. Would there be different codes for iOS?)

 

[Shun]

You're welcome. I tried it on both iOS and Android. I used:

Non-bold bold non-bold

So you could copy and paste the codes from above. I used the "Unicode Hex Input" input method on the Mac. Windows likely knows something similar. The starting character is different from the ending character.

Here's the result in the iOS Document Reader:

The Android text reader works differently, so it doesn't support the codes (but Android flashcards and user dictionaries do):

Hope this helps,

Shun