text format tags in contextual help

[minnellac]

Can someone point me to the documentation for text format tags available for tex entered in VI Documentation. I am familiar with the bold tag (blah), but I was wondering if there are any other tags available, for instance, to make the text italic...

thanks

[minnellac]

Sorry, that bold tag is the same as html, it looks like this: <B>blah</B>.

Obviously, I tried the html tag for italics, but that didn't work. So the question is, are any other formatting tags supported?

[spaceman_spif]

I hope this answers your question, but go to wherever you are entering your text and highlight that chunk of text. Then go to the pull down menu near the top that probably says "13pt Application Font" (or something like that) and in that pull down menu you'll see a "style" selection and in it you can select bold, underline, italic, etc.

[Johnner]

Given that the help for the Documentation window under VI Properties explicitly refers to the bold tag and nothing else ("Use <B> and </B> tags around any text in the description you want to format as bold."), I'd say it's likely that there isn't any additional formatting available. There's no mention of any formatting options at all in the LabVIEW User Manual...

Maybe someone in the LabVIEW Technical Communications group at NI is lurking and can offer any insider info that is available, but a quick tour of the palette of built-in functions with Context Help enabled suggests that bold text is the convention for input and output variable names and no other formatting is available.

--John

[Joao]

I have been looking for information on this myself, but still have not found any clue.

Besides "bold" format, it would be particularly interesting to have tab characters, italic and font size.

May be looking at the way Help files are formated, but I could not find anything about that either.

Has anyone already got around this?

Regards,

               Joao