How to toggle formatting for text after cursor
Posted: Sat Aug 16, 2014 5:45 am
I just started using CintaNotes and was pleased and amazed at virtually everything about it. The first and only disappointment I've had so far is discovering the way that CintaNotes formats text.
In every piece of software that I have ever used which has text formatting, including Microsoft Word, email, most forums, I've been able to press Ctrl+I (or Ctrl+B or whatever) and every character I type thereafter is italicized until I press Ctrl+I again to untoggle it.
For some reason, in CintaNotes, the only way to format (with italics, bold, etc.) a word or words is to either highlight the text or put the cursor somewhere in the middle of the word before pressing Ctrl+I or Ctrl+B or whatever. This is very cumbersome and inefficient because it requires so many more keypresses to do basic formatting. For example, if I wanted to italicize in CintaNotes the sentence you're reading right now, I'd have to press the following keys: Shift+Up, Shift+Ctrl+Right, Right x9 (i.e. repeated 9 times,) Ctrl+I, Down. That's 14 extra keypresses, not counting the modifier keys held down. Either that, or I have to move my hand away from the keyboard to my mouse, highlight the sentence with my mouse, and then click at the bottom-right to reset the cursor to the correct position to continue typing, and then move my hand back to the keyboard.
Compare this to the standard text formatting used by most other programs: I would simply press Ctrl+I before I began the sentence, since I knew that I wanted to italicize it, then I would type the sentence as normal and press Ctrl+I again after I finish writing the sentence. That's only 4 extra keypresses instead of 14.
(Note: I know that I can press Ctrl+Shift+I to italicize (or bold, or whatever) the whole paragraph, but that can't be used for formatting only parts of the paragraph, such as the word beginning this paragraph you're reading now.)
At first I thought I must be missing an option somewhere, so I searched around the forums here but unfortunately didn't find anything about this issue, which made me even more convinced I was simply missing something obvious. But then I finally found a comment by Alex in the Roadmap saying that implementation of this feature was planned for version 2.5, but it appears not to have been. Is this feature still planned? If not, I'm very confused at why this is the preferred choice for the usage of text formatting.
Thanks for reading, and thanks for CintaNotes!
In every piece of software that I have ever used which has text formatting, including Microsoft Word, email, most forums, I've been able to press Ctrl+I (or Ctrl+B or whatever) and every character I type thereafter is italicized until I press Ctrl+I again to untoggle it.
For some reason, in CintaNotes, the only way to format (with italics, bold, etc.) a word or words is to either highlight the text or put the cursor somewhere in the middle of the word before pressing Ctrl+I or Ctrl+B or whatever. This is very cumbersome and inefficient because it requires so many more keypresses to do basic formatting. For example, if I wanted to italicize in CintaNotes the sentence you're reading right now, I'd have to press the following keys: Shift+Up, Shift+Ctrl+Right, Right x9 (i.e. repeated 9 times,) Ctrl+I, Down. That's 14 extra keypresses, not counting the modifier keys held down. Either that, or I have to move my hand away from the keyboard to my mouse, highlight the sentence with my mouse, and then click at the bottom-right to reset the cursor to the correct position to continue typing, and then move my hand back to the keyboard.
Compare this to the standard text formatting used by most other programs: I would simply press Ctrl+I before I began the sentence, since I knew that I wanted to italicize it, then I would type the sentence as normal and press Ctrl+I again after I finish writing the sentence. That's only 4 extra keypresses instead of 14.
(Note: I know that I can press Ctrl+Shift+I to italicize (or bold, or whatever) the whole paragraph, but that can't be used for formatting only parts of the paragraph, such as the word beginning this paragraph you're reading now.)
At first I thought I must be missing an option somewhere, so I searched around the forums here but unfortunately didn't find anything about this issue, which made me even more convinced I was simply missing something obvious. But then I finally found a comment by Alex in the Roadmap saying that implementation of this feature was planned for version 2.5, but it appears not to have been. Is this feature still planned? If not, I'm very confused at why this is the preferred choice for the usage of text formatting.
Thanks for reading, and thanks for CintaNotes!