How to properly format text in sheet on OS X?

Mark Brownell gizmotron at earthlink.net
Mon Aug 18 11:47:00 EDT 2003


On Saturday, August 16, 2003, at 06:18  AM, Brian K. Maher wrote:

> answer warning "<font face='Lucida Grande' size='13'><b>message 
> text</b><br><br></font><font face='Lucida Grande' 
> size='11'>informative text</font>" with "Continue" as sheet

from the docs:

If the prompt contains <p> or a start/end tag pair, the answer command 
assumes the text is in the same format as the htmlText property. 
Otherwise, the answer command assumes the text is plain text.

I got this to work:
answer  warning "<p><font size=18>message text</font></p><br><br><font 
face=Arial size=12>informative text</font></br></br>" with "Continue" 
as sheet

I dropped the single quote marks. I nested the "<p></p>" tags. Empty 
space in attributes are not allowed in SGML and consequently HTML. I'm 
not sure about Transcript. I'm thinking that setting the answer 
textFont to Lucida Grande first, somehow might make multiple fonts 
available.

Mark




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