character to justify text

[-= JB =-]

Your explanation helps a lot.

thank you,
-=>JB<=-

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On Jun 26, 2007, at 8:32 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> -= JB =- wrote:
>
>> I haven't really done much with HTML TEXT but that may be a way to  
>> go.
>> One thing I notice reading the Rev docs is they offer HTML and for  
>> some
>> reason Rev left out full justification with HTML.  Am I right  
>> that  HTML has the ability to do full justification.  If so Rev  
>> purposely
>> left it out so it made me not want to look into solving the  
>> problem with HTML.
>>
>
> It's not so much a case of Rev leaving anything out as it is an  
> unfortunate choice of terms.  What Rev calls its "htmlText"  
> property could probably be better called "sgmltext", since it  
> simply uses the same SGML conventions that HTML uses, but for a  
> different purpose:
>
> HtmlText was designed to provide an ASCII representation of all  
> aspects of a field's contents.  At runtime text attributes are of  
> course stored in a binary format, but one can use the htmlText to  
> reproduce a field's content with complete fidelity without needing  
> to much with the binary representation.  Additionally, since it's  
> just ASCII, one can use Rev's handy text handling to easily  
> manipulate htmlText data to alter the contents of a field raidly.
>
> But Rev's htmlText property wasn't designed to support the fulle  
> HTML spec.  For the tables alone I wish it did, and perhaps one day  
> it will, but historically that property is designed solely to  
> support an ASCII representation of Rev's field text attributes.
>
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