Import Full Formated Text (late reply)

[Thomas J McGrath III]

Jac,

YES, this would be my understanding of a 'correct' way for it to work - 
however - it does not work that way!
At least not with any consistency when a standalone is built or when a 
field is then acted upon via style scripts.
I built a small stack with two fields in it. one field was modified via 
the contents pane - select chars modify that text via text menu. the 
other field was modified via live text field - select chars modify via 
text menu. --- now copy the text style of each of those fields into a 
new field - one for each. you will see like I do that the text of each 
is now completely different. In fact if it worked the way you described 
I would not have any problems with it. (aside from lacking tabs and 
individual line centering features)

As far as the Text Formatting pane goes - if it is used instead of the 
text menu - the changes made do not stick when building a cross 
platform standalone -  so... it can't be treating the text the same 
way.

Thanks

Tom
PS I can send you my rough text stack to SEE these problems in real 
life.....

On Nov 27, 2003, at 12:13 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:


> There may be some confusion about the differences in these approaches. 
> Both the text menu and the contents pane apply styling on a 
> per-character basis, provided you have used the text tool to select 
> text in the field. Only selected text will acquire the style you 
> choose.
>
> If you have selected the entire field object using the arrow tool, the 
> text menu will apply a default style to the entire field. This will be 
> the style for any text that does not have per-character styling. 
> (Character styling overrides field styling on a per-character basis.) 
> The Text Formatting pane in the property inspector is just another way 
> to do the same thing, and also applies a default style to the entire 
> field.

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