How do I alter the size of the writing that I use on Fluther?

Nevermind

Have you tried using the zoom function in your browser?

Oh, you mean like this? Precede and follow with double dashes and no intervening spaces. It’s at the bottom of the composing window.

@Jeruba Madam, how dare you?

Hm?

Dare you how Madam?

@Jeruba Just kidding.
I am not sufficiently proficient with computer use to be able to immediately make any sense of your kind advice ”..using the zoom function..” in my ”..browser..”.

Hence I was overcome by a slight case of ‘The Benny Hill’s’. :-)

Do you have a scroll wheel in the middle of your mouse? It’s the rolly whatzit between the left and right clickers. Hold down the CTRL key whilst rolling the wheel forward and the font size will increase on the page. Roll it backwards and the font size will decrease.

If your mouse doesn’t have a scroll wheel, hold down the CTRL key and press the + and – buttons on the number pad of your keyboard and that will do the same thing.

Of course, if you meant how to make your words very small, just do as @petethepothead says.

To whisper, just put two dashes
– - and then your text. – -
but do it without the spaces.

See here.

It’s EASY to alter text

@All, Sorry friends, but I really do need step by step. Spelled out.
@petethepothead Thanks. I went to your link. I’ve been there before. On each occasion without comprehending.

Type this exactly: “dash dash i am whispering dash dash”

It will look like this: i am whispering

”I am whispering”

@lloydbird, I didn’t know whether you wanted to be able to see it larger (or smaller), like on account of your eyesight, or you wanted to make two different sizes appear together in the text space.

If you want to enlarge the size of the print as it appears on your screen, look for a ‘View’ function at the top of your browser* and see if there’s a ‘zoom’ option under it. You can choose the + zoom to make text appear larger. People with poor eyesight can see text better that way.
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*Which browser are you using? The answer to this is something like “Firefox” or “Internet Explorer.”

OK. To make text tiny
1. Decide which word you would like to make tiny.
2. Place the cursor in front of word or phrase that you want to make tiny. To manipulate the cursor you move the mouse until the arrow is in front of the word or use the arrow keys on your keyboard.
3. Press the dash(hyphen key on your keyboard)twice
4. Repeat 1–3 at the end of word or phrase
Voila TINY

I am whispering :-)

@SeventhSense, you have to press the hyphen twice or you get strikethrough instead of whispering.

Next lesson make a link in a word.
@Jeruba
You missed my edit..Doh!

@lloydbird: Now try bold and italitics. And strike through.

And whatever this is.

I can’t do links. I’m link challenged.

@chyna
The Great Wall of chyna

How Times New Roman?

@@@@@@

Thanks 7 but I’m still link challenged.

To link:

” whatever you want the link to say ” : http://www.fluther.com

without the spaces you get:

whatever you want the link to say

WOW! :-)

@petethepothead Just been back to your link with greater insight.
@SeventhSense _I’m not sure that I need the advice about the mouse but thanks anyway. (-:

@chyna
It’s just ” ” and a :
‹(•¿•)›

Not working.

Toonces Not working

Not fair 7. Not only can you link , you can draw pictures.

@chyna
That’s the magic elf that makes the link.

“That’s the magic elf that makes the link.”:
did this work?

Nope, it didn’t work.

You didn’t paste a link.

@lloydbird: Before you figured it out, I had started working on a series of step by step diagrams for you. :P

@chyna:
copy this next line and paste it in your answer box:

“Chyna’s profile”: http://www.fluther.com/users/chyna/

then remove the space between the colon and the url.

“Chyna’s profile”:http://www.fluther.com/users/chyna/

nope. Challenged. I’m telling ya.

Ok. Refresh the page and try again.

It should work next time. Really.

edit: if it doesn’t, replace the quotation marks as well. Just erase mine and put them back in.

edit 2: and if that doesn’t work, just type the whole thing manually yourself.

edit 3: copied quotation marks seem to be screwy.

“Chyna’s profile”:http://www.fluther.com/users/chyna/

Doesn’t work for me either, and I know how to do links.

Now I am typing this:
quote
Chyna’s profile
quote
colon

and pasting the URL after it (:http://www.fluther.com/users/chyna/)

like this:
Chyna’sprofile

and…

that didn’t work either. What’s the matter with the URL?

Wait, fixed it. It was my error. I had a single quote and a double quote. They both have to be double quotes.

Try that, @chyna.

@petethepothead
That didn’t work for me either..

Don’t copy and paste the ” ” characters.

I was eventually taught to link by @Saturated Brain in a link some months ago
To link what you do is:
a) Have in mind what you want to call your link and write down the link that you want to link to on a piece of paper.
b) Type ” then space,then what you want to call your link, then space,then : then space, then the (Exact) web address of your link.
c) Remove the space between the start of you links web address and the :
d)Then remove the space between the : and the ” (Moving left to right)
e)Then remove the space between the ” and what you have called your link
f)Then remove the space between what you have called your link and the first ”

What you have called your link should then turn red in the ‘Answer this question box’.

Not working. How does everyone else know this?

Chyna’s profile
http://imgur.com/ebnVy.png

edit :: Ignore the underlining in my pic. It is my text editor. It isn’t needed.

1. Copy an url of your choice. Like this http://www.chidynasty.com (copy the text of it)
2. Type a doulbe quote
3. Type your link text, like CHINESE FOOD IS GREAT
4. Type another double quote
5. Type a colon
6. Paste the url

it should look like this:
CHINESE FOOD IS GREAT

Alternatively, copy the block of text underneath chat box. The one just to the right of whisper. The one that starts with quotelinkquote…

Paste that in to the box. Alter the text inside. See how it changes!

“food”:
http://www.chidynasty.com/

323–667-3388
Thank You for over 21 years of patronage, unfortunately Chi Dynasty has moved . Our new location is One block south of Franklin, 1813 Hillhurst ave the cross street is Russel, inside of the Los Feliz Plaza. Chi Dynasty will continue to provide the finest dining experience. We have also reinstated our Delivery service.

Our Number is still the same 323–667-3388

Dine In – Take Out – Delivery – Catering – Cocktails

323–667-3388
Thank You for over 21 years of patronage, unfortunately Chi Dynasty has moved . Our new location is One block south of Franklin, 1813 Hillhurst ave the cross street is Russel, inside of the Los Feliz Plaza. Chi Dynasty will continue to provide the finest dining experience. We have also reinstated our Delivery service.

Our Number is still the same 323–667-3388

Dine In – Take Out – Delivery – Catering – Cocktails

11:30 AM – 10:00 PM SUN.-THUR.

11:30 AM – 10:30 PM FRI.-SAT.

I did it! Sort of! Thanks Andrew. I’m getting it.

@chyna Just delete that space between colon and link

Let’s try this a different way.

@chyna, there are two parts to this trick. One is simply to share a link in a post. The other is to put the link behind a clickable label so that the reader sees red underlined words instead of the URL itself.

To do the first, all you have to do is go to a website you want to link—for example, an image of a jellyfish. Go to Google images and find a picture of a jellyfish, and then, when you’re on the page of the image, go up to the URL bar at the top and copy and paste it. Here’s the first one I found:

http://media.photobucket.com/image/jellyfish/peachio/060119_jellyfish.jpg

Notice that I just put the URL into the post, and it got treated with the red and the underline automatically.

Next step:

Instead of showing you the whole URL here in my post, I give it a label such as Jellyfish Picture, and then I make that into a link.

I put the words Jellyfish Picture inside double quotes like this:

“Jellyfish Picture”

and then I type a colon right after, like this:

“Jellyfish Picture”:

and then right after the colon I paste the URL that I found. When I do that, it turns the words into a link, and here is what you see:

Jellyfish Picture

But what I see is the URL following the colon. The fluther interface converts it for me into a label with a link.

@chyna Or rather, just delete the carraige return after the quotation makr.

And sorry, by “text” of the URL, i just meant copy the location in your address bar, not the full text of the page. Sorry about that.

Found it, here is where my penny dropped.

jellyfish

Bingo!

That’s it! That’s it!

I did it! Thanks Andrew and Jeruba and SeventhSense. I have worked on this for a year now. I can do it!

Party in the house

@SeventhSense Showing off your linking skills? :)

@aprilsimnel thanks for the scroll wheel suggestion, that helps my tired old eyes.

@chyna
Lurve for the late great Mr. James.
always gets me going

Good work team Fluther! These questions, when successful, always make me so happy. :D

@evelyns_pet_zebra – You’re welcome!

(oYo)

imtryingit i’ve been trying to figure this out too yaaay!

@chyna how do you make that little goober head thing??

@trailsillustrated The thingy that @SeventhSense made? I don’t know, he won’t tell me. Maybe if you ask him, he’ll tell you.

@SeventhSense how do you make that little goober head thingy? pleese pleese?

I have no control over him. He just makes appearances whenever he wants.
He lives in my keyboard.

@augustlan I agree. This thread makes me feel all warm and fuzzy!

Or a bit like the feeling that I get from the Haunted House ride at Disney Land. Twists and turns around every corner, feelings of nervousness yet full of great expectations, that little ghost (@SeventhSense) that suddenly appears on my lap in the mirror and surprises me yet piques my interest, and happiness because the ride was well worth the wait.

How to do the Courier font? Anyone?

Surround with @

I never knew how to do that, either!

Awesome.

Ha! I went nuts there.

We’ve created a monster. :)~

“link:http://tinypic.com/r/a0i61s/4”

Ok, now why can’t I do it? It looks right to me.

The quotes should be around the word that you want to show, not around the whole thing.

“link”: http://tinypic.com/r/a0i61s/4

link.

link
Yes! I did it. I think I’m good now. Thanks @petethepothead.

@chyna
Now that’s a first for me. You posted a blank answer!

@SeventhSense Actually I was trying to edit and it didn’t work out for me. But I got a GA for it?

Sure. I don’t even know how you did it. :)

Neither do I. I just tried posting a blank response and it didn’t work.

Ah.

@petethepothead See? It can be done.

How’d you do that? I always have to type at least a period.

@Jeruba It was totally by accident and I’m not sure what I did. I think it was when I tried to edit the answer twice and on the second try, deleted the whole thing and hit enter. It doesn’t do it on the first try.

Let me try that.

still not working

<... seven or eight tries, different ways…>

rats, I can’t do it

@petethepothead, what did you do?

I just typed something, then went back and edited it, and replaced what I had written with a space.

It worked! Thanks! Once in a while I just feel like expressing my silence. Now I know how.

@petethepothead Thank you! I’ve always wondered how that works.

Huh. Well, whaddya know?

Great…now people will just have blank responses…the quality of Fluther is much improved… :(

@timothykinney, I would regard it as distinctive seasoning to be used only very sparingly and with reason. But it is also true that I can think of plenty of posts I’d have liked to see replaced with blanks.

@timothykinney – I just like learning how to do these things.

whisper – whisper @ whisper ” whisper * whisper