font solution

[Eric Chatonet]

Hi Charles,

You were perfectly right.
Thanks for having dug in the question and for giving us with David  
this clever workaround :-)

Best Regards from Paris,

Eric Chatonet.

Le 8 juil. 05 à 04:55, Charles Hartman a écrit :

> David Epstein (who's having list access problems & wrote me  
> separately) suggests the solution copied below, to the problem of  
> getting text in a field into "owner" font and style after some  
> lines have been put into another font.
>
> It looks cool, and I'm working toward using it. Meanwhile, I've  
> discovered the source of my problem. If you set the text style of  
> some words in a field to link, bold, etc., and then look at the  
> htmlText of the field, you see that after the end-of-link/bold  
> marker, Rev is putting in a <font> specification (setting it to  
> whatever the effective font is at the time the card is made. Get  
> rid of that font tag, and the following text reverts to the _real_  
> owner's font even when that changes.
>
> Surely that's not the right behavior Rev should have, is it?
>
> (Hope this makes sense -- written in too much haste.)
>
> ========= Epstein Solution ============================
>
> on changeFieldTextProps f,mySize,myFont
>
>   repeat with c = 1 to the number of cards
>
>     put the htmlText of fld f of card c into hold[c]
>
>   end repeat
>
>   set the textSize of fld f to mySize
>
>   set the textFont of fld f to myFont
>
>   repeat with c = 1 to the number of cards
>
>     set the htmlText of fld f of card c to hold[c]
>
>   end repeat
>
> end changeFieldTextProps

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