Bolding in C++
 

Would anyone know how I would bold the first letter of a word in C++?

Thanks,

J-

sorry, that doesnt really make much sense, can you rephrase or say what your actually trying to do

I want to make the first letter of a word to be bold.

Ex: Help

i understood your question, the fact is it doesnt make sense, c++ deals in plain text or binary, you would have to use an external graphics library to make it output anything like that.

if you can give me a clue as to what you want like "i want to input plain text and ouput html/TeX with the first letter of each word bolded" or "i want to open up a window that displays the contents of a text file with the first letter of each word in bold" then maybe i can help but just asking "how to bold the first letter of each word" makes no sense in this context.

It is possible to bold characters using the ncurses library.

Like kev82 mentioned, you need to tell us what output format you're dealing with. Is it console, plain text (and other files), windows, html, etc?

It's a console application. Not sure if that helps...

Jessica

why dont you use escape sequences for colour higlighting on terminals,

#include <iostream.h>

int main ()
{

cout<<"\033[01;37m";
cout<<"the bold text:\n";
cout<<"\033[0m";

return 0;

}


this program prints the line in white..emboldened...

hope this has been of some help...

here are some color codes you might like to use:
black 0;30
green 0;32
red 0;31
brown 0;33
dark grey 1;31
light green 1;32
light red 1;31
yellow 1;33
blue 0;34
cyan 0;36
purple 0;35
light gray 0;37
light blue 1;34
light cyan 1;36
light purple 1;35
white 1;37

Awesome...thanks bunches.

Jessica

It would be much better to implement this program using ncurses than escape sequences that may or may work with the given terminal. I will post a sample program when i get home.

yeah..agreed it would not work...atleast i dont think it would on VT100, but other than that ..it is working on the terminal that i use...ncurses doesnt sound like a great idea for such a small thing...