Setting fonts

[Eric Chatonet]

Hi Mark and Charles,

I have had many struggles with fonts and sizes until I understood  
correctly inheritance problems  and, above all, some weird behaviours  
of the engine.
For instance: if you set the textFont to empty, the textSize is set  
to empty too (this feature has been discussed on this list about a  
year ago) and there are other rather weird features...

I can only tell you one thing: we have to be "clean" and a "certain"  
steps order in a process regarding fonts and sizes has to be  
respected when building a stack.
In particular, it seems that when you manipulate fields and fonts and  
sizes in all directions, kinds of droppings (see previous posts about  
default buttons :-) can remain.
That's not clear in the docs: so try, test and test again ;-)

Le 6 juil. 05 à 18:08, Mark Smith a écrit :

> I just tried exactly what you described, and it worked just as it  
> should. This on OS 10.3.9, G4 powerbook, Rev v2.6.
>
> Strangely, though, in the recent thread about changing text size in  
> a field, preserving relative sizes of styled text, I came across  
> the same thing, where changing the textSize of a field affected  
> only the unstyled text before a block of styled text, but not the  
> unstyled text after....
>
> However, the problem went away, without me doing anything about it,  
> and from the test just now, seems to be staying away. This must be  
> a bug, so worth bugzilla-ing, but if it's intermittent, it'll be a  
> bitch to solve...
>
> Good luck,
>
> Mark
>> Le 6 juil. 05 à 18:08, Eric Chatonet a écrit :
>>
>> Here it's working:
>> First, you set all textfont specs of any field, card and stack to  
>> empty.
>> You paste a text in any field.
>> You select the text and set its textfont to "Use Owner's  
>> Font" (empty)
>> You select the lines you want to be in another font as Courier and  
>> set them.
>> Now you set the textfont of the stack to any font and all lines  
>> the textfont of which were empty adopt the specified font (your  
>> 9-12 lines included).
>> You can change the textfont stack and it's going to work.
>> You can save and reopen the stack: all is perfect.
>
> On 6 Jul 2005, at 13:03, Charles Hartman wrote:
>
>
>> Yes, that's what I'm doing. However, as I said, the text _after_  
>> the specified-font text does _not_ switch to the altered owner's  
>> font.
>>
>> Let me clarifiy: a field contains a dozen lines, let's say; the  
>> first six and last four have been created using Palatino, with  
>> Palatino as the stack font, so there's no font specification on  
>> any of those lines. Lines 7-8 have had their Text Formatting  
>> properties altered so their font is specified as Courier. Now in  
>> the main stack's script I insert the line "set the textfont of me  
>> to 'Arial'" and save and close the stack and its substacks and  
>> reopen. Now on that example card, in that field, lines 1-6 are  
>> Arial, 7-8 are Courier (all as expected) -- but lines 9-12 are  
>> still in Palatino.
>>
>> I'm beginning to think this is a bug. I'll file a BZ on it. Any  
>> ideas on workarounds meanwhile? That don't involve iterating over  
>> all lines in all fields on all cards??
>>
>> Charles Hartman
>>
>>
>> On Jul 6, 2005, at 2:07 AM, Eric Chatonet wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 1. Combining a specified font and a "not specified" font:
>>> If you have a field with no font specified (use owner's font) and  
>>> then you set the font for some lines, for instance, to Courier  
>>> New (selecting these lines and choosing the right font in the  
>>> Text menu).
>>> Then when you set the textFont of the stack (by script or in the  
>>> properties inspector), only lines which use owner's font will  
>>> change: they will appear in the specified font but the lines  
>>> previously set in Courier New will stay unchanged.

Best Regards from Paris,

Eric Chatonet.
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