RichText Implementation

[André.Bisseret]

I am following attentively your attempt to "simulate" a richtext field.
I have a stack that presents a lot of texts (one text in one main  
field on each card).
Often these texts include lists that normally should be indented  
(often with 2 levels). So I got the same problem as yours.

After unsuccessful trials I gave up and currently all the lines of my  
texts are left aligned. For the (to be normally indented lists) I  
used special characters such as "*" and "-" (but left aligned). So  
that the presentation is not up to standard.

So I am very much interested by any solution you could find.
The main issue I encountered was the following :
When a line had to wrap, I had to type a return and then a tab in  
order to get an indented paragraph.
Then, when for one reason or another, the width of the field was  
reduced, even a little bit, or if I changed the style of the  
characters (font or size), I got a terrible mess !
It happened for example, when I was transferring the content of a  
field in another field that I use as a printing field.

Hav'nt you got this kind of problem ? In your example, I suppose that  
you have a "return" after "You know you". So that if you reduce the  
width of your field, the word "you" will wrap, isolated and left  
aligned (without tab).

Hope my "English-like English" is understandable enough :-))

Thanks a lot for your attempt to turn around this crucial shortcoming  
in Rev.
I hope you will keep informing us about the problems you are  
encountering and your solutions.

Best regards from Grenoble
André

Le 5 août 06 à 14:04, Jan Sælid a écrit :

> The scriptwriter needs to know if the user is editing dialogue, a  
> character
> name, an action etc.
> the format of a script looks something like this:
>
> ---
> 			TRUMP
> 	You didn't call, Eliza. You know you
> 	won't	get anything if you...
>
> He goes to the desk and snatches the...
> ---
>
> This format needs three different margins. One for the character  
> name, one
> for the dialogue and one for the "action" part. One approach I'm  
> thinking of
> is to use tabstops and have a rawkeyup handler in the field that  
> checks what
> type of element the writer is editing and puts the cursor at the  
> right tab
> if the writer e.g. pushes the downkey. The challenge with this  
> method is
> that I have to store every element in the script in a custom  
> property of the
> field with the number of tabs for each element. Maybe with a  
> reference to
> the linenumber. e.g. "The line1 of fld "Script". Am I on the right  
> track?
>
> Hope this is understandable. Any ideas are appreciated. In the long  
> run it
> could be handy to make a library of functions that other revolution  
> users
> could use.
>
> I Wrote:
>>> I’m really in need of individual paragraphs.
>
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