Setting the appearance of the Details text area

Select the Properties option for help java. In its Details tab, you see a text area. You can customize the formatting of this area by right-clicking to invoke the Options Editor. The settings are universal; once you set them in one text area, all text areas appear the same way. The tabs in the Options Editor include:

• Editor tab specifies scroll bars in the Details area. Your choices are:

  • Vertical – unselected by default

  • Horizontal – selected by default

• Tabs tab specifies the amount of space for tabs and indents. You can also set up auto-indenting, including indenting code brackets.

• Format tab Allows you to change the font size and colors of the syntax that appears in the text area. The elements you can change are:

  • Text selections

  • Texts

  • Keywords

  • Comments

  • Formal Comments

  • Numbers

  • Strings

  • Open strings

  • Operators

  • Punctuation

  • Break point margins

  • HTML element names

  • HTML attribute names

  • HTML attribute values

  • HTML comments

  • HTML tag delimiters

  • HTML operators

• Print tab Specifies the font size that the text area’s syntax prints at. You can also specify what information should appear in the header and footer.

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