fonts & styles

[Charles Hartman]

Bizarre. Well, so how _can_ I work around it?

All I want to do is set a textfont in the main stack (on open,  
depending on platform), and have all non-font-specified text adopt  
(inherit) that font, without losing my links and such. The  
inheritance gets killed when Rev -- gratuitously, as far as I can  
tell -- inserts a hard-wired font tag after any pair of style tags.  
Am I looking for some way, after opening the stack and possibly  
changing the default font, of searching through every card (?!) for  
extra font tags and deleting them? I'm not sure I see how to do that.

Charles Hartman


On Jul 8, 2005, at 12:33 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Charles Hartman wrote:
>
>> Let me put it another way. If I want all text in a field that  
>> doesn't  have a specified font to be in the owner's font -- isn't  
>> that the  whole idea of inheritance? -- then why should that  
>> _font_ setup be  overridden by a _style_ setting?
>>
>
> It was implemented that way many years ago (long before RunRev  
> acquired the engine) as a workaround for other issues.  Style  
> attributes should of course be independent of one another.
>
> There's a Bugzilla request for this:
> <http://support.runrev.com/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi?id=66>
>
> As you can tell by its number it's been there a long time.   
> Fortunately RunRev is aware of this and it's my understanding it's  
> on their radar; I don't know to what degree it's being actively  
> worked on right now. Hopefully someone from RunRev will chime in  
> here with a status report on this.
>
> --
>  Richard Gaskin
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Charles Hartman
Professor of English, Poet in Residence
Connecticut College
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