The Font Panel
The Font panel (Figure 43), which is fully integrated with Font Book, offers a standard interface for formatting font characters in a document.
Figure 43. TextEdit’s Font panel.
In this part of the chapter, I explain how to use the Font panel to format text.
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This chapter looks at the Font panel as it appears in TextEdit, the text editor that comes with Mac OS X. I discuss TextEdit in detail in Chapter 9.
The Font panel is only available in Carbon and Cocoa applications—those written to take advantage of Apple-created libraries of code. That’s why you’ll find the Font panel in only some applications.
To open TextEdit’s ...
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