Setting fonts

[Charles Hartman]

On Jul 7, 2005, at 9:52 AM, Ken Ray wrote:

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>> I need to modify what I wrote before, quoted below.
>>
>> The text after the special-font (Courier) lines _does_ get set to
>> whatever the new default or owner's font is -- UNLESS it (the lines
>> without a specified contains any text _style_ changes. A bit in bold,
>> or marked as a link, interrupts the transformation, and any text
>> after that is in the old, pre-change default font.
>>
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> That's correct. Inheritance of text attributes is broken as soon as  
> any
> style changes. I wish it weren't so, but this is indeed the case.

Oh dear.

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>
>> How should I get around this? I can imagine searching each card,
>> putting any special-format text into temporary variables, setting the
>> style of everything to Plain, changing the font, then
>> reformatting . . . a nightmare. At the moment, nothing better is
>> occurring to me.
>>
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> I have successfully used a frontScript that would trap preOpenCard  
> and then
> repeat through all of the fields and set their text attributes to a  
> known
> common value, but also checking a custom property of the fields to  
> see if
> special handling should occur for a particular field. It works  
> really fast,
> and isn't too many lines of code.
>

Cool. But (1) what about "special handling" that affects not a whole  
field but some chunks within the field? And (2) doesn't this approach  
take an awful lot of (that is, potentially a noticeable amount of) time?

Charles Hartman



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Charles Hartman
Professor of English, Poet in Residence
Connecticut College
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