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   8                         Fonts and Colors
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  29                                         Fonts and Colors
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  32                         <p>
  33                                 To change your font or your color, use the "Show Fonts" and "Show Colors" menu items in the Format menu. This works in messages, your profile, and status messages.
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  38                                                 <h3>
  39                                                         Details relating to messages
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  45                                                 <p>
  46                                                         Ordinarily, messages are sent in plain text, with no explicit font nor color attached to them. You can add a font or color (or both) using the steps in the next section.
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  54                                                 <h3>
  55                                                         Adding styles to a message
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  61                                                 <p>
  62                                                         To add styles for one message, use the Show Fonts, Bold, Italic, Underline, or Show Colors menu item in the Format menu. You can also use the keyboard shortcuts for fast addition of simple styles.
  63                                                 </p>
  64                                                 <p style="margin-left: 1cm; margin-right: 1cm; text-align: center">
  65                                                         Did you [⌘I]see[⌘I] that duck? Wow, what [⌘U]feathers[⌘U]!<br>
  66                                                         ↓<br>
  67                                                         Did you <i>see</i> that duck? Wow, what <u>feathers</u>!
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  70                                                         After the message is sent, the styles are dropped, and the next message is plain-text again.
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  78                                                 <h3>
  79                                                         Changing the font in which plain text is displayed
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  85                                                 <ol>
  86                                                         <li>Open the Font Panel using “Show Fonts” in the Format menu.
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  88                                                         <li>Type some text into the inputline.
  89                                                         </li>
  90                                                         <li>Select it.
  91                                                         </li>
  92                                                         <li>Set its font using the Font Panel.
  93                                                         </li>
  94                                                         <li>Click the “Save This Setting As My Default Font” button. This saves the plain-text-display font.
  95                                                         </li>
  96                                                         <li>Press Esc. This clears the inputline; when you next type your message, it will be plain-text, displayed in the newly-selected plain-text font.
  97                                                         </li>
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 105                                                 <h3>
 106                                                         Changing the default styles
 107                                                 </h3>
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 112                                                 <p>
 113                                                         (“Styles” here meaning the presence or absence of bold, italic, and underline.)
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 115                                                 <ol>
 116                                                         <li>Type some text into the inputline.
 117                                                         </li>
 118                                                         <li>Select it.
 119                                                         </li>
 120                                                         <li>Use the Bold, Italic, and Underline menu items in the Format menu to style the text as desired.
 121                                                         </li>
 122                                                         <li>Open the Font Panel using “Show Fonts” in the Format menu.
 123                                                         </li>
 124                                                         <li>Click the “Save This Setting As My Default Font” button. This saves the default styles for new text.
 125                                                         </li>
 126                                                         <li>Press Esc. This clears the inputline; when you next type your message, it will possess the newly-selected styles.
 127                                                         </li>
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 136                                                         Setting a default color
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 142                                                 <p>
 143                                                         Follow the same procedure as to change the default styles.
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 152                                                         Clearing the default color
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 158                                                 <p>
 159                                                         To revert to text having no color, set the default color to black using the procedure above. One difference: Even if you press Esc, the next message you send will still be explicitly black. The next message after <i>that</i>, and all messages thereafter (until you set a default color again), will have no color.
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 168                                                         The difference
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 174                                                 <p>
 175                                                         The default font is used for the <strong>display</strong> of plain text; it is not sent over the wire.
 176                                                 </p>
 177                                                 <p>
 178                                                         The default styles are applied to every message.
 179                                                 </p>
 180                                                 <p>
 181                                                         The default color is applied to every message, unless it is black, in which case the message will have no color.
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 190                                                         Isn't this all one big mess?
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 197                                                         Yes, it is. We'll iron this out in a future release.
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