Fonts and Colors

HippoEDIT has highly customizable fonts and color system, that allows you inherit settings from parent syntax, overwrite settings from parent of extend them.

You can use monospaced or non-monospaced fonts (monospaced are preferable, if you often work with block selection), any size fonts or select to use fonts from parent languages (Use from <SyntaxName>).

You can use as explicit color as indirect color indexes that referrers to some color from current color palette.

There are such predefined values for colors as:

• Automatic - hardcoded values, referring to other basic colors
• Transparent - transparent colors that display color from underlying style
• Custom - select explicit color for style
• New - in-place creation of the new indexed color in palette with auto referencing on it

You can define as text colour (foreground) as back colour (background).

In addition to colour settings you can set font styles as:

• Bold
• Italic
• Underlined

Additional font styles as as squeezes, boxing, or different underlining available with direct modification of styles in syntax files.

Option Show Inherited Styles controls if styles inherited from parent syntax should be shown.

Show in Overview Bar controls visibility of the style area on Overview Bar.