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Text formatting doesn't seem to work with any font or style. I hit apple I or B and it never changes my text. It flashes the toolbar like it's working, but nothing happens. the people i send messeges too also don't get the formatting. Even if I manually go to the format pulldown menu, I don't get anything.

What font are you using?

I tried it in Comic sans, Lucidia, and Optima

All three work for me...

I have done some more tinkering and I have got this problem pin pointed.

I re-installed and all three worked fine. However as soon as I changed the standard text from Lucida to sometihng else, (Comic sans, or Optima) I lost the ability to bold and italicize. However even if I put Lucida back I still couldn't, I had to re-install adium again. I can repeat the problem at will, and I have had a few friends also replicate it.

Twelve Motion wrote:I have done some more tinkering and I have got this problem pin pointed.

I re-installed and all three worked fine. However as soon as I changed the standard text from Lucida to sometihng else, (Comic sans, or Optima) I lost the ability to bold and italicize. However even if I put Lucida back I still couldn't, I had to re-install adium again. I can repeat the problem at will, and I have had a few friends also replicate it.

What does "changed the standard text" mean? What does "re-install Adium" mean?

I do a spotlight search for "adium" and throw everything into the trash. Then I go to the site, download adium and install it as directed.

If I touch nothing, I can bold and italicize fine. The default text is Lucida Grande (for me at least, I don't know if it's standard or what.) I can change the buddy list style, messege style all I want. However if I switch the messege font to comic sans, than I can't bold or italicize, even if I set Lucida grande back.

If I re-install as I said above, I get the formatting options back.

Problem fixed for the next version.

Awesome.

I'm bumping this because while I can bold, I cannot use italics. I am using adium .87 and italicize is greyed out in both the context menu and the format menu.

http://trac.adiumx.com/ticket/2443 I think this is the problem but I seem to remember in past versions being able to easily italicize so what changed?

what font are you using?

Lucida grande 12- I think that's the default and I've been using it all along.

Lucida Grande doesn't support italics. Any italicized Lucida is synthesized IIRC, which Adium doesn't do.

I tried switching fonts to both Arial and Helvetica and still I am not able to italicize.

I'm using 1.0svn and using Helvetica I'm able to hit Cmmd+I and italicize it (to Oblique) and the same applies to Arial.

well here's a screen shot- adium 0.87 and still no italics

I am bumping this yet again as I am now using Adium 0.88 and italics still do not work as in the screen shot above. (Bold does)

Italics work for me, and always have. I can set it by hitting Command - I, and also by highlighting and right-clicking, as in your screeshot. Have you tried looking at your font in Fontbook to see if it in fact has an italic?

Alright seems to be fixed by a combination of the 0.88 update and changing to arial font.

Some fonts do not have italics.