Font sizes for metadata in the inspector view

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I’m having an issue with the custom metadata font size. I have an integration with Aeon Timeline that uses custom metadata as a receptacle for its custom properties. My current project uses these extensively. I use them to write my scenes.

The interface works perfectly, however the font is small in Scrivener, like 8 or 9 pt. Is there any way to increase the font size???

Thanks so much!!

Mark

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Hmm… Writing scenes in the metadata? surely you mean somewhere else…
Metadata has just small fields. Except for the “text” type, but which would then be somewhat of a overuse/misuse… – at this point why not use the synopsis panel, which is intended exactly for that. (?)

Here are a couple places where you can change the font and size :

Notes panel

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Synopsis panel

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Thanks for your suggestions. I’m using those areas for other notes. Here’s an example of how I’m using the metadata. Again, these fields are populated by Aeon Timeline. I can’t import them anywhere else.

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Ok. I see. It is actually real metadata. I thought you meant that you were using it for synopsis purposes.

I don’t know where to change the font and size for that. Sorry.

(Looks good by the way. Nicely detailed.)

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Coloring that icon in the Binder, instead of changing it to a ticked icon, is a nice solution.

I’m sure you can do something in a Theme:

SmallerMetadataText
SmallerMetadataText303×595 29.7 KB
LargerMetadataText
LargerMetadataText303×593 39.3 KB
LargerMetadataTextBW
LargerMetadataTextBW299×595 35.5 KB

If you’re comfortable updating an existing Theme, you should add this the QSS stylesheet:

SCRInspector QWidget QToolBar,
SCRInspector QWidget QLabel,
SCRMetaDataFieldWidgets,
SCRInspectorMetaDataEdit,
SCRInspector QLineEdit,
SCRInspector QCheckBox,
SCRInspector QComboBox,
SCRInspector QDateEdit {
    font-size: 16px;
}

The White Theme is a recreation of the Default Theme that cannot be saved to file as a Theme, so there may be differences to the Default you use. First save you Prefs in File > Options > Manage > Save Preferences.
Then import this Theme in Window > Themes > Import Theme. After that, load the Theme from the Themes menu and restart Windows. Finally, restore your Preferences.

White.scrtheme (229.1 KB)

HTH

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