Can't change font

[Robotech_Master]

On every document I've tried save for one, I have not been able to get my font preference for iSilo to stick. I want to change it to Serif/Georgia, but it always ends up staying Verdana.

Am I doing something wrong? Is there some conversion option in iSiloX that I should be choosing that I'm not?

[iSilo]

In a document in iSilo 3.x/4.x format, a run of text can have its font family specified as using a serif, sans serif, or monospace font. The font family to use is part of the formatting information for the run of text, just as bold and italic attributes are. Given that, you, the viewer of the document in iSilo, can specify the specific font to use for each of those font families on a document-by-document basis. So you can very well set the options such that Times New Roman be used for the sans serif family even though Times New Roman is a serif font.

A document in iSilo 1.x/2.x format always specifies the sans serif font. Documents in Palm Doc and plain text format do not specify any font, so they use the Default font family setting.

Given the above, the document for which you are unable to change the font probably uses a font family other than the serif font family. If the document is in iSilo 3.x/4.x format and you never changed the font and you have not changed the defaults for the different font families, then you can tell which font family it uses, based on whether the text is displayed using a serif font (default is Times New Roman), a sans serif font (default is Verdana), or a monospace font (default is Courier). The same idea holds for the other document types described above. If one does not know what serif, sans serif, and monospace are, then one can just change all the font families (Default, Serif, Sans Serif, and Monospace) to use the desired font and all will be well.

[Robotech_Master]

I read that response twice over and am still not sure I entirely understood it. :P

Perhaps you could try to make the font selection dialog a little clearer for a future version…

[iSilo]

On the Font screen, the way you select the font to use for a particular font family is that you select the Family Name first. The Font field then changes to show the current font assigned to that family.

As an example, let's say we open a document that we have never opened before or one for which we have never changed the font assignments. If you go to More/Options/Font, do the following and you may understand better.

1. The Family Name shows Default and Font shows Verdana. This means that the font to use for documents that do not specify a font family (e.g., Palm Doc, plain text), the font that will be used will be Verdana.
2. Change Family Name to Serif. The Font field changes to Times New Roman, meaning that for runs of text that specify the use of a serif font will display using the Times New Roman font.
3. Change Family Name to Sans Serif. The Font field changes to Verdana, meaning that for runs of text that specify the use of a sans serif font will display using the Verdana font.
4. Change Family Name to Monospace. The Font field changes to Courier, meaning that for runs of text that specify the use of a monospace font will display using the Courier font.

Another possible way of presenting the Fonts to Use options might be the following:

Default: Verdana
Serif: Times New Roman
Sans Serif: Verdana
Monospace: Courier

In other words, the four family names are four individual fields/options for which you can change the setting (e.g., assign a different font to each).

A document can have runs of text each of which uses a different font family just as you can have runs of text that use different attributes of bold, italics, and no emphasis.

Hope that helps.