Notes displaying body text

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In map views, large notes display (a portion of) the note's body copy text as well as the title.

The note text appears only if:

  • The note has text.
  • The note is sufficiently large.
  • For containers (including agents) the title height area is sufficiently large.
  • The note is not an adornment or picture adornment (adornments don't have text!).
  • The note doesn't use a shape for display.

The text is displayed but not styled (think of it as a $Text 'preview'), and embedded images are not drawn.

From v5.0.2, notes with no title will display body text if present; previously body text display was suppressed in such notes.

Once a map note displays body copy its title is no longer vertically centered.

An attribute $MapBodyTextSize lets a specific font size for the body text be chosen. $MapBodyTextColor sets the color used to display such text.

From v5.0.2, setting $MapBodyTextSize to a value of '1' will suppress text display even if there is body text.

The font used to render both title and body text is set via Preferences:Map:Note label font. This font choice can be overridden at note level by setting $NameFont to a different value, though again it applies to both title and body text. Therefore the 'text' seen in a map icon will normally not be in the same font(s) as seen in the actual $Text in the note's text window.

Text alignment uses $TextAlign and title alignment uses $NameAlignment.

In older versions, In maps or large notes that display both the title and text of the note, Tinderbox uses $Name rather than $DisplayName to estimate the height required for the title.

Notes displaying body text

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[Last updated: 16 May 2012, using v5.11.1]


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