larger/smaller fonts

[Richard Gaskin]

Ken Ray wrote:
> On 3/27/05 6:31 PM, "Richard Gaskin" <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>I've had a request to do this in one of my Rev-based apps, but it's not
>>so easy:  adjusting the size of the field will not affect any styled
>>text within it, requiring some means of adjusting things by character or
>>style run.
>>
>>More efficient than walking through characters would be to manipulate
>>the htmlText of the field, since in most cases the number of <font> tags
>>should be fewer than the number of characters.
> 
> 
> Actually, you can do it this way (YMMV):
> 
>     put 18 into tSize  -- or whatever size you want
>     put the htmlText of fld 1 into tData
>     put char 4 to -5 of tData into tData  -- strips <p> ... </p>
>     put "<font size=" & q(tSize) & ">" & tData & "</font>" into tNewText
>     set the htmlText of fld 1 to tNewText
>     set the textSize of fld 1 to tSize
> 
> 
>>Is it worth requesting a new language feature to have the engine do
>>this?  If so, what syntax do you feel would be appropriate?
> 
> 
> I think this should still be a new language feature, though. Perhaps the
> "effective size"? So we could say:
> 
>   set the effective size of fld 1 to 18
> 
> and all text would go to 18, regardless of styling?

I forgot to clarify:  by "styled text" I meant all style attributes, 
including size.

So the challenge is to bump up all sizes by about 10% or so.

Got a regex one-liner for that?
You usually come up with one for everything else. :)

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