Mark up text in Balsamiq Mockups
When you edit text in Balsamiq Mockups Show archive.org snapshot , you can define inline styles like this:
| Bold | Some *bold* text |
| Italics | Some _italic_ text |
| Blue underlined hyperlink | Some [linked] text |
Note that most Balsamiq widgets display with a bold font by default, so you won't usually see a difference when a piece of text is explicitly marked up as bold.
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Install wmctrl through your package manager, i.e.
sudo apt-get install wmctrl
Download the attached script and mark it as executable.
Then go to `Edit -> User...
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Heads up: LibreOffice Calc adds quotation marks when copying data from multi-line cells
Copy data from LibreOffice Calc
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09:46:24 [...
Heads up: LibreOffice Calc AutoCorrect will change characters when pasting multi-line text
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foo => foo
bar bar
baz Baz
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When Balsamiq Mockups won't let you load an image file
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Heads up: Rails offers two similar means for text truncation
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= truncate("my string", length: 5)
= "my string".truncate(5)
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Use CSS "text-overflow" to truncate long texts
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JavaScript bookmarklet to click an element and copy its text contents
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How to reliably center (block) icons vertically with text
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PostgreSQL: Difference between text and varchar columns
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PostgreSQL offers three character types for your columns:
- `chara...