How come I have two types of fonts in my sentences?

Vasile Caraus

how come I have two types of fonts in my sentences? I pasted from the internet, and forget it’s a different font, just that line. So, if I want to intentionally change the font of a line, or just a word, how do I do that?

Is it possible if I copy/paste text taken from somewhere on the internet, or from a docx file, to keep the fonts there (italic, bold, font size)?

PeterJones

@Vasile-Caraus said in How come I have two types of fonts in my sentences?:

how come I have two types of fonts in my sentences?

Possibly syntax highlighting; what is the Language menu selection?

Or possibly characters that aren’t found in the current font, so Windows CompositeFont logic picks a font that does have those glyphs. (Though normally CompositeFonts are on a single-character basis, so unless the O carte aren’t the “normal” unicode characters, but actually some fancy characters – maybe subscript or the SpAMaVoiDaNce characters – then I’m not sure why they would use the CompositeFonts feature of Windows)

You haven’t given us enough to go on, and since you just gave us an image, there is no way for us to experiment or try to replicate your problem. (To provide text, copy it from Notepad++, then hit the </> button on the toolbar while writing your reply, and paste the example text between the ``` lines)

So, if I want to intentionally change the font of a line, or just a word, how do I do that?

You cannot. Notepad++ doesn’t allow manually changing fonts; it’s a text editor, not a word processor (see our FAQ entry for more). Any font differences you see are due to syntax highlighting or possibly CompositeFont issues

Is it possible if I copy/paste text taken from somewhere on the internet, or from a docx file, to keep the fonts there (italic, bold, font size)?

Nope.

Coises

@Vasile-Caraus said in How come I have two types of fonts in my sentences?:

how come I have two types of fonts in my sentences? I pasted from the internet, and forget it’s a different font, just that line. So, if I want to intentionally change the font of a line, or just a word, how do I do that?

Is it possible if I copy/paste text taken from somewhere on the internet, or from a docx file, to keep the fonts there (italic, bold, font size)?

Looking at your image, I would say almost certainly the person who created the text you copied used something like this:

https://www.namecheap.com/visual/font-generator/serif/

to make it. The characters that look that way are not ordinary letters. If you search for carte you won’t find it — because it’s actually 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐞, which are completely different Unicode symbols from this block.

It’s a “trick” — and one of the reasons it usually a bad idea is that you’ll find there’s no easy way to replace the characters you copied with “normal” text.