presenting sentences containing words in bold

[Michael J. McGuire, Ph.D.]

I believe the only way to address this is to use the slide object.

Paul Warren wrote:

> Can anyone suggest a method for presenting individual sentence texts
> in which one word in each sentence is in bold? The only solution I
> have come up with so far is to create the sentences in a word
> processing package and copy them individually to bitmap files to
> display as pictures, one for each trial. However this is proving to
> be extremely tedious for a large number of sentence files. I thought I
> could have a set of text strings for sections of the sentence,
> entered as individual attributes in a trial list. One of these
> attributes would have font set to bold, and the sections could be
> presented instantaneously. But I haven't been able to work out how to
> determine automatically the position of each subsequent bit of text,
> given that the sentence strings have variable lengths and the word in
> bold has variable locations through the string.
>
>
> Dr Paul Warren
>
> Senior Lecturer in Linguistics
>
> School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
>
> Victoria University of Wellington
>
> PO Box 600
>
> Wellington
>
> New Zealand
>
> tel +64 4 463 5631/5600
>
> fax +64 4 463 5604
>
>



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Michael J. McGuire, Ph.D.
Department of Psychology
Washburn University
1700 College Avenue
Topeka, KS 66621
Michael.McGuire at washburn.edu
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