false anti-alarm

[Mark Schonewille]

Charles,

Is the goal of your script to change the default font in text 
fields, not only before but also after font and style tags?

The reason for inserting font tags in substacks may be that 
substacks inherit all font and style information from the main 
stack. If you change the font of the main stack and restore 
htmltext that doesn't have a font tag, Rev inserts a font tag to 
make sure that it looks the same as before. The solution 
probably is inserting a font tag yourself before restoring the 
htmltext.

I believe one should either use default font and style info of 
objects or set the font and style info of text within those 
objects explicitly, rather than trying to do both.

Best regards,

Mark


Charles Hartman wrote:
> In case anyone's interested, I've made a small 48k dummy to  demonstrate 
> this problem, by taking everything out of my appo except  the scripts in 
> question and a couple of example cards. Can't post it  here, with the 
> 16k limit, but I'd be glad to send it to anyone who  wants to poke into 
> a problem that I, for one, am about to give up on  -- it's too far 
> inside Rev's guts for me to have any ideas left about  fixing or even 
> working around it.
> 
> coh
<script snip>
>>
>> This works when it is called on the main stack of an app. When it  is 
>> called on a substack, it screws up. IN THE SUBSTACK ONLY,  wherever 
>> there's a *style* change, Rev inserts (right before the  style tag) a 
>> *font* tag, which hard-wires whatever *was* the  default font before. 
>> Therefore everything after the first style-tag  in the field fails to 
>> switch to the new default font. Why would  this happen in the substack 
>> and not the main stack?
>>
>> <omit several paragraphs of rant>
>>
>>
>> Charles Hartman

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