The Font Panel

The Font panel (Figure 43), which is fully integrated with Font Book, offers a standard interface for formatting font characters in a document.

Figure 43. TextEdit’s Font panel.

In this part of the chapter, I explain how to use the Font panel to format text.

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  • This chapter looks at the Font panel as it appears in TextEdit, the text editor that comes with Mac OS X. I discuss TextEdit in detail in Chapter 9.

  • The Font panel is only available in Carbon and Cocoa applications—those written to take advantage of Apple-created libraries of code. That’s why you’ll find the Font panel in only some applications.

To open TextEdit’s ...

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