Consider this a feature request. I would like the ability to specify multiple fonts or styles within a single text block. Frequently, when writing technical training materials, I need to reference information that has to be used precisely. For example: "When a request to the backup system takes a long time to load, a record is written to the slow_load_time table in the troubleshooting database." I want to make "slow_load_time" and "troubleshooting" use a different font to highlight that this is a precise name of a system on a computer system. By allowing me to use a monospace font like Courier New, the technical nature of that particular piece of text is emphasized. This lets me communicate in a subtle way to the learner the nature of that particular piece of text better than the block's variable width font with bolding and italics does.

Hi there NextGen, As someone who often writes and uses technical documentation, I can definitely understand where you're coming from! I'll share your idea with our larger team for consideration. Thanks for letting us know what you'd like to see!

If you happen to know how to use the Web Inspector panel to edit the underlying HTML of pages, you might be interested to find out that you can edit the HTML of most blocks, and it will persist. So you could add <span style="font-family:monospace">the text</span> around some words to switch it to a monospace font. You can also use this trick to remove the annoying grey border on tables by adding ' style="border:none" ' on each cell. This is a pretty terrible authoring experience, but it does work, and since it's been 5 years since this thread was opened and Articulate hasn't added the feature, it's probably the only option.

I would also love to see this feature added. I'm noticing I have the capability to use code font within this messaging tool. It seems like it would make sense to have the same option within Rise.

+1 I mean look I can do this in your forum, but not a course :(

Hello, Workaround with bold/italic font substitution is not working for me because I use both for their intended purpose. And I already tried playing with background color - it does not provide significant difference with the main text. Please introduce monospaced formatting. I suggest using the "Consolas" and/or "JetBrains Mono" fonts on top of the Courier font family. Aforementioned fonts provide much better difference between "1l|" and "O0o" characters. 1l| O0o

Rise: Multiple Font Styles Within a Text Block

Renz_Sevilla
Staff
4 years ago
Hi Ivan! I've also replied to you here.

You can try using Media Block > Code Snippet for code you need to show or for a specific monospace style.

We're currently tracking requests for the ability to replace fonts inline using the formatting toolbar. If we make any changes to this we'll let you know!
- IvanBelash
  Community Member
  4 years ago
  Hi Renz,
  
  I am aware of the Code Snippet block, but it is not applicable if I need to put some CLI command within text on a tab or checkbox list or knowledge check block. That is why it is essential to have monospace formatting.
KristofferHarri
Community Member
4 years ago
This would be an awesome feature!
IvanBelash
Community Member
4 years ago
Dear Articulate team,

When monospaced font formatting will be introduced in Rise?

I am looking forward to seeing this feature implemented.
Renz_Sevilla
Staff
4 years ago
Hello, again Ivan! Thanks for following up with us! Sorry, no updates on this. Here is our current roadmap.
TonyKay
Community Member
3 years ago
Yes this would be a huge feature. Many of our courses/content developers cannot be moved to use Rise in its current form. We use constant references to code inline and the code block whilst useful does not work well for examples like:

Use the ansible command to test connectivity.

Real world simple example

Also a more powerful snippet block would be nice with a colorizer, optional line numbers etc so we can make code more readable and reference lines by number.
IvanBelash
Community Member
3 years ago
Please please please introduce monospace font formatting! I suggest using "JetBrains Mono" font in first place, followed by Consolas and Courier.
DerekAbbott-4a9
Community Member
2 years ago
+1
CatherineLauzon
Community Member
12 months ago
Is there any plan yet to add inline monospace fonts for code? This is essential for my team as well.
EleanorEmily
Community Member
12 months ago
In Figma, it's possible to style parts of the text within single text layer with a different library text styles, which is very useful if you have a long text with many subheadings, bolded parts etc).
PhilFoss
Community Member
4 months ago
Just realized, you can override the css variable in the inline style, like so:

<span style="--font-family-body: monospace;">The future is now</span>