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Curly Brackets for Monospace Text

Lindsay Tustison

Hi,

I have several pages in Confluence that require monospace text created inside a single line of regular text. I have used {{some text}}, and it works some times, but other times the brackets don't do anything. They're just added as regular text. Do the brackets have exceptions; can they not be used for certain text strings?

Thanks!

Accepted answers

Elisa [Atlassian]

Lindsay,

According to the documentation, the Preformatted style is a Paragraph Style. So, its expected behaviour is to format the whole paragraph/sentence.

If you want to use monoscape format you can highlight what you need and then apply a character format (in the 'More' menu) clicking on monoscape option (see image bellow).

Image: https://drive.google.com/a/atlassian.com/file/d/0B7oxzo8TMlfoVWlGcTMwMnhVV2c/edit?usp=sharing

Hope it helps!

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Elisa [Atlassian]

Hi Lindsay,

What is your Confluence's version?

Lindsay Tustison

It's v5.5.2. So I know I can highlight text and click Preformatted in the headings drop-down menu with this version, but that doesn't allow me to change the font of just a single word in a sentence; it will change the entire line to monospace font.

Elisa [Atlassian]

Lindsay,

According to the documentation, the Preformatted style is a Paragraph Style. So, its expected behaviour is to format the whole paragraph/sentence.

If you want to use monoscape format you can highlight what you need and then apply a character format (in the 'More' menu) clicking on monoscape option (see image bellow).

Image: https://drive.google.com/a/atlassian.com/file/d/0B7oxzo8TMlfoVWlGcTMwMnhVV2c/edit?usp=sharing

Hope it helps!

Don Willis

There are a few circumstances where the autoformat expresions such as {{asdfasdf}} won't work. These include:

non-plain-text inside the expression. E.g. *some bold _some italics_ some more bold* doesn't work. Nor does it work if there's a link in the text
spaces at either end. E.g. {{some words then a space }} won't work.