Shortcut for highlight and line text in pdf viewer window

fredericky

I think Pdf expert have those two shortcuts, can we also have?
like Mac, option+cmd+H and option+cmd+U(nderline), respectively

dstillman

You can use Option + the number keys to select the different annotation tools.

fredericky

Thank you. This is a little different from expectation. Shortcut of option+cmd+H and option+cmd+U(nderline) means that once text selected, using these shortcuts can mark these texts.

dstillman

In Zotero, there are two highlighting/underlining modes you can use: one where you turn on highlighting or underlining and choose a color, and then every selection immediately creates an annotation, and another where you just select text and then choose the color you want for your highlight from the popup. (The latter only creates highlights at the moment in Zotero 7, but we might make it possible to choose whether to create highlights or underlines.) What you're asking for doesn't really make sense — it wouldn't apply to the first mode, and for the second mode, there's already a color popup right there as you're making a selection with the mouse, and the point is that you're choosing a color for each selection.

What we'll likely be doing, however, is 1) moving the color popup closer to where the mouse cursor is released, instead of centering it over the text selection, so that it's faster to choose colors and 2) making it possible to press a number key on the keyboard to choose a color from the color popup.

fredericky

Great! If the second way is useful for underline, that will be perfect. Appreciate your efforts to make highlight and underline funciton more convenient!

sojusnik

> (The latter only creates highlights at the moment in Zotero 7, but we might make it possible to choose whether to create highlights or underlines.)

That's a great idea and would be very useful!

DonnaCoxBaker

Does this have a PC equivalent?

dstillman

Alt = Option