Customizing Text Formats

TeXnicCenter allows you to customize the font family, style and size for the navigator bar, the output bar and the editor window. For the editor window you can additionally customize the colors used for syntax highlighting.

To customize the text formats, open the dialog Customization and select the tab 'Text Format'.

The meanings of the controls are:

'Window'
  Select the window for which you would like to change the text format.

  Available window types are:

  'Editor'
    The editor window used to edit the (La)TeX documents.
  'Navigator'
    The window normally docked at the left side of the main window, which displays the document structure.
  'Output'
    The window normally docked at the bottom of the main window, which displays the output generated by the (La)TeX compiler.
'Font'
  Displays an example of the currently selected font for the selected window type.
'Change...'
  Allows you to select the font family, style and size to use for the selected window type.
  If the current window type is 'Editor', only fonts with a fixed width per character are available.
'Element' (only available for window type 'Editor')
  Select the syntax element here to customize the color for.

  The following elements are available:

  'Selection Margin'
    The margin displayed at the left side of an editor window.
  'Whitespaces'
    Invisible characters like space and tabulator.
  'Background'
    Background of the text.
    Note: This will not change the whole background of the editor window, only the areas, where text is placed. To change the background of the editor window, change the display properties of your Windows operating system.
  'Normal Text'
    Normal text
  'Background (selected)'
    Same as 'Background', but for selected text.
  'Normal Text (selected)'
    Selected text
  'Keyword'
    A (La)TeX keyword
  'Comment'
    A (La)TeX comment
  'Operator'
    A (La)TeX operator
  'Text in \verbatim'
    Text inside a verbatim environment
  'Normal text in equation ($$)'
    Text inside inline math mode.
  'Keyword in equation ($$)'
    A (La)TeX keyword inside inline math mode.
'Color Picker' (only available for window type 'Editor')
  Choose the color for the selected element here. The color 'Automatic' is the default value for the selected element.
'Tabulator width' (only available for window type 'Editor')
  Specifies the width of a tabulator in characters.