fonts & styles

[Charles Hartman]

I have fields containing a lot of text, mostly in "owner's font,"  
"plain," but with some pieces in a specified font and other pieces in  
styles bold, link, etc.

When I change the owner's font (in this case, the main stack's), the  
changes in the text on the cards' fields are inconsistent.

In particular, every time there's a style change (into & out of bold  
for example, link, etc), a "font" tag gets inserted, hard-wiring  
whatever the owner's font *was* at the time the text was edited. So  
the next time the owner's font changes, it affects everything *up to*  
that style change, but after that the old font is wired in place.

I"m editing the text in the Contents pane of the Inspector. Doing  
this in the Encoded Text Picker doesn't seem to help. It must be  
behavior in the Rev engine I suppse.

I'm not able to think of a way not to call this a serious bug. Is  
there a workaround?? Am I missing something basic?


Charles Hartman
Professor of English, Poet in Residence
Connecticut College
charles.hartman at conncoll.edu
*the Scandroid* is at cherry.conncoll.edu/cohar/Programs