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Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffiOS text editor is now available!
We are happy to announce that iOS now has a text editor! You can access this feature on any text file from the toolbar in the lower left corner.
This editing of .txt files already existing and stored in Dropbox is a great feature! Thank you.
However, I need to be able to see (and edit) my .txt files contents in a fixed width font. In the editor I am using right here to write this request, there is a drop down Font selection feature - and one of the fonts is Courier. That's precisely what I need (could be Menlo or some other fixed width font).
Is there any way to do this?
What I get now looks like
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345.
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.
What I need would look like:
123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345.
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs.
I am on an iPad 2, iOS 11, current Dropbox App (or can run browser, too)
Help!
Cardinal2B wrote:
However, I need to be able to see (and edit) my .txt files contents in a fixed width font.
Curious... While ".txt" files are displayed/edited using a proportional font, ".md" (MarkDown / Plain text) files are "displayed" in a fixed width font! However, ".md" files still don't appear to be editable in the Dropbox iOS app (as requested by earlier posters)? Although ".md" files do show the same text-file-like icon as ".txt" files.
(The Dropbox app on Android allows ".md" files to be edited.)
It would be useful to have a customizable list of file extensions (within "Settings") that can be associated with the text editor. Also, an option to toggle a fixed-width font in the editor would be very useful (a "font selection" is probably overkill IMO). When reading/editing "text files", a fixed-width font is generally preferred. You can do everything with a fixed-width font (indentation, aligning, tabular data) - which you simply cannot do with a proportional font.
Dropbox iOS App Version 74.2.2
