Programming for automatic bolding?
 

1. once you highlight (select) a text, bold the highlighted text without having to press CMD B (if you can't do this within Sigil, can you do it with your computer system? For example run program: automatically applies bolding to everything that you highlight.)

2. once you highlight (select) a text, highlight the text with a certain background color

I'm using 0.9.14

1. AFAIK, you can't do that. Not to mention what if I want to convert case or italicize or etc.?

And you might want to update to a current version of Sigil. 0.9.1.4 is an old version and includes the glitchy Book View that could rather often generate incorrect or downright illegal code.

2) Text background color is always set using the epub's css/xhtml. And is never a good idea since that text could be rendered unreadable by user preferences.

Also, Sigil 0.9.14 is fairly old. We can't fix any bugs you may find in it.

This is a good idea, but I don't want the text to be bold, but in flashing purple.

You should learn about Clips then.

1. Press Tools > Clip Editor (Ctrl+Alt+C).

2. Create a new Clip by pressing the "Add Entry" button:

Name: Highlight
Text: <span class="highlight">\1</span>

then press the "Save" button.

3. In Sigil's main window, View > Clips lets you see a list of all your clips.

4. Now, when you highlight text like the word "example" in this sentence:

then press your "Highlight" Clip, this will happen:

5. Clips can also be controlled by shortcuts.

If you go into Edit > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts, you can assign shortcut keys for Clip 1 -> Clip 20.

By default, Clip 1 = Ctrl+Alt+1

This would allow you to highlight your text, then instead of pressing Ctrl+B (to bold), you instead press Ctrl+Alt+1 (to highlight).

(You can now change each clip's shortcut to whatever you want.)

But the text is still not displayed in flashing purple.

Tex - I’m pretty sure Binchen was being sarcastic - he knows you would have to attach the appropriate CSS file :)

In any case, the OP wanted it automatically - pushing CTRL-B was too much work. I would have recommended setting the keyboard shortcut to CTRL-SPC… that way it’s easier to find the space bar and you don’t need to lift your finger as high on the keyboard:rofl:

Can you make text flash without javascript? If so, dern, and all this time I've been mooning about the removed blink tag.

Quoted the wrong person. Meant to do original poster, but the mini Clips tutorial still applies. :)

Yes. You could use CSS3 Animations.

See:

• MDN: "<blink>: The Blinking Text element"
• MDN: "Using CSS animations"
• MDN: "Animatable CSS properties"
• StackOverflow: "Imitating a blink tag with CSS3 animations"

You'd be able to animate visibility or opacity.

Is blinking text a good idea in ebooks though? Definitely not.

s/ he / she /

Which reader supports CSS3? :chinscratch:

Quite a few epub3 readers support the CSS3 required by epub spec.

"Quite a few" is not a valid answer to "which".

Are you identifying your preferred pronouns?!?! In that case I’m still confused…lol

Should I have said “she”… if so, I humbly apologize!

Pretty much any one that follows the EPUB3 standards quite well:

• Kobo (mobile/device)
• PocketBook (mobile/device)
• Gitden Reader (Android)
• Thorium Reader (PC)
• [...]

No idea if they'd support blinking animations though, never tested it.

I'm tired of whatever this weird game is. Feel free to declare yourself the winner.