linking wrapped text

Jeanne A. E. DeVoto jeanne at runrev.com
Sun Jul 28 02:03:22 EDT 2002


At 3:10 PM -0700 7/24/2002, Mark Mitchell wrote:
>Anyway, one question I have:  Once I've set the linkText of a chunk to
>some string,
>where do all these nifty linkText strings get stored?  Are they the
>equivalent of
>custom properties of that field?  It seems like magic that I can have these
>potentially very long strings stored somewhere, and yet I don't know where....

They're stored as properties of chunks in the field. Like text styles and
fonts. These sorts of properties are internal to the file format, so
they're not actually part of the field text, just linked to chunks in the
field. (I hope that makes sense....)

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