HTML files don't display properly

[Devin Asay]

Francis,

Make sure the fixedLineHeight property of the field is set to false.

Devin

On Feb 20, 2006, at 4:14 AM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote:

> Hi from Paris (it's not raining, but winter is dragging on !)
>
> I wanted to display my Song Lyrics in a stack, but Word files are
> "no go", so I did a batch convert on my Word folder (VINC is very
> useful !), and got perfect HTML files (24 point titles, bold text  
> where
> I want it, spacing OK, etc.). When I double-click these files and  
> display
> them with Explorer, they look fine (So far, so good !).
>
> I then display the lyrics in my stack :
>
> set the htmlText of field "MyLyricsField" to URL ("file:" &  
> GVLyricsFile)
>
> where GVLyricsFile is a valid full path file name
>
> What is displayed is unpredictable. All the lines are there, bold  
> text is OK,
> etc. I understand that I may lose some of the characteristics,  
> because of the
> properties of the field that I display in (24 point headers become  
> 12 point, etc.)
> but what bugs me most is the line spacing. Sometimes the lines are OK,
> sometimes they are all squeezed up, and are totally unreadable !
>
> What is doing this ? Can I remove the problem with scripting, or does
> it reside in the original Word or HTML files ?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Francis
>
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Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University