Import Full Formated Text

[Mark Brownell]

On Friday, November 21, 2003, at 06:12  AM, Thomas J McGrath III wrote:

> Mark,
> Do you have a sample stack of how you implemented this? I would love 
> to learn more of REVs html abilities and what you can do with it.
>
> Tom

Well that would be giving away a trade secret. I've spent several years 
developing a simplified version of the interface between markup and 
presented text. My goal of creating MTML was to create a relational 
text gathering system. I now have everything down to a simple to use 
system. I plan to sell this in several forms including a free version 
for distribution of published works using DRM. When I did this in 
Director there was no HTML renderer that worked well for me so I grew 
my own. Starting from scratch has made it possible to manipulate text 
to such a degree that I have full control over each character within 
the markup state. I did this through a needed invention I called PNLP, 
Parallel Numerical Lineal Parser. This creative tool was developed and 
perfected back in early 2000. To give away all my work now would be 
counter productive to my goals. If you go to the Run Rev website and go 
to the contributions by developers links you will see an example called 
FrogBreath 1.0. This example has a version of PNLP as a function that 
is used to populate an array. Perhaps this will give you a clew of what 
might be involved in creating your own numerical based parsers. All I'm 
doing is markup manipulation.

As far as learning about REV's html abilities, I learned how to do this 
through the suggestions in the docs.