I was reading a bunch of Mac sites (this one included, of course!), and one comment struck me: the fact that the "Outline" style for font formatting has disappeared since the advent of OS X. I just tried in a bunch of Cocoa applications (Pages, Mail, TextEdit, etc.), and sure enough, it is possible to select text and change it to outline. To do so, simply control-click (or right-click, if you've got a two-button mouse ... hey, Apple, isn't it about time?) on the selected text, and choose Outline from the Font sub-menu.
Strangely enough, this function is not available from the Font panel (i.e., the panel you bring up with Command-T). I would say it's yet another idiosyncrasy in the Apple Human Interace Guidelines.
[robg adds: Yes, it's a hint on a pop-up menu. Since I hadn't realized that Outline was hiding there, and not in the Font panel, I would guess others have missed it as well ... or I'm just really slow!]
Strangely enough, this function is not available from the Font panel (i.e., the panel you bring up with Command-T). I would say it's yet another idiosyncrasy in the Apple Human Interace Guidelines.
[robg adds: Yes, it's a hint on a pop-up menu. Since I hadn't realized that Outline was hiding there, and not in the Font panel, I would guess others have missed it as well ... or I'm just really slow!]
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