Getting a chunk of stylized text?

[depstein at att.net]

There are probably faster ways to do this, but try this:

function extraText f 
  -- returns the htmlText that overflows size of fld f
  -- and deletes it from field f
  repeat with c = 1 to length(fld f)
    if the formattedHeight of char 1 to c of fld f > the height of fld f then
      put the htmlText of char c to -1 of fld f into myHtml
      delete char c to -1 of fld f
      return myHtml
    end if
  end repeat
  return empty
end extraText

David Epstein
>  Getting a chunk of stylized text?
> From: Dan Friedman <dan at clearvisiontech.com>
...
> Let's say field A contains more text than can fit in it.  The text in field

> A contains multiple fonts, styles and sizes.  How can I get the stylized
> text that is not being displayed? (and remove it from field A and put it
> into field B)