I’d like to use text boxes as “card” elements for my document. However I can’t edit the text inside to be formatted how I like it. I need to make a card title in one font, weight and size, and the body in another.
If the text box tool isn’t the right one for the job, I wonder which one should be. Also considering that a simple rectangle shape can’t customize how rounded its corners are (the preset “rounded rectangle” doesn’t have the corner radius I desire).
Can’t you move the radius slider?
Use frames instead of text boxes. A text box is only intended for very simple text with the same formatting throughout. Insert > Frame. That doesn’t solve the problem of the shape of the borders though.
Try the text frame in the attached .odt. I have modified it to display a very rounded rectangle (svg so resizeable) as background. It includes instructions on how to create.
UsingFrameInsteadOfShape.odt (60.0 KB)
This creates something similar to frame inside shapes. With much greater formatting capabilities - but with own limitations, like inability to rotate freely. The use of “Text Box” here is confusing, because true text boxes do not use the Writer’s layout engine used in the text object created by this command.
See also this description about two different layout engines - in Writer and in other modules, posted by @Regina.
