Text styles

When drawing text into the Picture window or into an editor, you can use text styles other than regular Roman.

## Italic, bold, superscript, subscript

With the following symbols, you introduce stretches of text drawn in special styles:

  `%`: the following letter will be italic.
  `#`: the following letter will be bold.
  `#%`: the following letter will be bold-italic.
  `^`: the following letter will be superscript: `%m%c^2` gives mc2.
  `_`: the following letter will be subscript. Example: F0 is typed as `%F_0`.
  `%%`: the following letters will be italic, until the following `%`:
  `Now %%you% try` gives: Now you try.
  The same goes for `##`, `^^`, and `__`.
  `\s{...}`: small:
  `W\s{ARP}` gives: WARP

To draw a % or # or ^ or _ symbol, you type “`\%` ” or “`\#` ” or “`\^` ” or “`\_` ”, respectively: a backslash, the symbol, and a space.

## See also

Special symbols

### Links to this page

- Font menu
- ManPages
- OT learning 2.2. Inside the grammar
- Text...
- Viewport text...
- What was new in 3.6?