WrdFont: Get or Set the Font in Word

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Get or Set the Font in Word

Description

WrdFont can be used to get and set the font in Word for the text to be inserted. WrdFont returns the font at the current cursor position.

Usage

WrdFont(wrd = DescToolsOptions("lastWord"))
WrdFont(wrd) <- value

Arguments

value	the font to be used to the output. This should be defined as a list containing fontname, fontsize, bold and italic flags: list(name="Arial", size=10, bold=FALSE, italic=TRUE, color=wdConst$wdColorBlack).
wrd	the pointer to a word instance. Can be a new one, created by GetNewWrd() or an existing one, created by GetCurrWrd(). Default is the last created pointer stored in DescToolsOptions("lastWord").

Details

The font color can be defined by a Word constant beginning with wdConst$wdColor. The defined colors can be listed with grep("wdColor", names(wdConst), val=TRUE).

Value

a list of the attributes of the font in the current cursor position:

name	the fontname
size	the fontsize
bold	bold
italic	italic
color	the fontcolor

Author(s)

Andri Signorell <[e-mail]>

See Also

ToWrd, WrdPlot, GetNewWrd, GetCurrWrd

Examples

## Not run:  # Windows-specific example

wrd <- GetNewWrd()

for(i in seq(10, 24, 2))
  ToWrd(gettextf("This is Arial size %s \n", i), font=list(name="Arial", size=i))

for(i in seq(10, 24, 2))
  ToWrd(gettextf("This is Times size %s \n", i), font=list(name="Times", size=i))

## End(Not run)

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