Two colors onto one word

Liz Rentner
Liz Rentner Member Posts: 5
edited November 2024 in English Forum

A suggestion is to put two color highlights onto one word - for example, DOING I want "DO" in brown and "ING" in yellow.
Because it helps to see the present and past tense clear for Deaf people. Thank you, Liz

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  • Kevin A
    Kevin A Member Posts: 1,058

    Liz you can do this now.

    If you go into Program Settings, then under the Text Display section, change the Text Selection option to Character.

  • JT (alabama24)
    JT (alabama24) MVP Posts: 36,519

    You can do this. You need to change your settings/preferences to Text Display > Text Selection > Character. That will allow you to select each individual character (or group of characters) instead of a word or "Smart Selection." 

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  • Andrew Batishko
    Andrew Batishko Member, Administrator, Community Manager, Logos Employee Posts: 5,409

    You can also hold down the Alt key (or Option on Mac) while selecting to temporarily override the selection behavior.

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  • Liz Rentner
    Liz Rentner Member Posts: 5
    Got it!! I am so happy however I would like to make this two colors on visual filter so I can separate two colors "call" in brown and "ed" in yellow.
  • JT (alabama24)
    JT (alabama24) MVP Posts: 36,519

    I would like to make this two colors on visual filter

    That isn't possible and isn't likely to be a feature. Logos doesn't tag individual parts of words, which is what would be needed to drive that request. 

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  • Kevin A
    Kevin A Member Posts: 1,058

    The closest you could get would be to create a highlight with the main text at 20%, then text before it 'call' with one colour, and after 'ed' with another colour, but unless you can find or create an extraordinarily thin font, there will be a slight gap in the text. Parchment is quite thin, there are likely thinner. I used orange as the yellow is not that readable on the white, also I don't think it is brown.

    There may be limitations on the visual filter I am not aware of, but seems to work.

  • A suggestion is to put two color highlights onto one word - for example, DOING I want "DO" in brown and "ING" in yellow.
    Because it helps to see the present and past tense clear for Deaf people. Thank you, Liz

    Welcome [:D]

    Kevin said:

    The closest you could get would be to create a highlight with the main text at 20%, then text before it 'call' with one colour, and after 'ed' with another colour, but unless you can find or create an extraordinarily thin font, there will be a slight gap in the text. Parchment is quite thin, there are likely thinner. I used orange as the yellow is not that readable on the white, also I don't think it is brown.

    There may be limitations on the visual filter I am not aware of, but seems to work.

    Found font "Gloucester MT Extra Condensed" on macOS Big Sur 11.1 is rather narrow (more so than Arial Narrow)

    Visual filter example for Doing (with two variations for use in a Red Letter Bible):

    For font styling, chose subscript along with 20% plus changed color to match Text Before (turns text into underline connecting the syllables).

    For visual filter searching, the [match all] directive keeps search engine from finding matching word stems: e.g. do

    Keep Smiling [:)]

  • Liz Rentner
    Liz Rentner Member Posts: 5

    Wow!! Thank you sooooo much. I can't wait to share this to the team. :)