Changing the Style of Words in Field And Quotation Marks?

[Peter Brigham MD]

I tried your approach and got bogged down, and finally cut the Gordian  
knot by avoiding the problem altogether. What I ended up doing was  
making sure that there are no true quotation marks in the text field  
-- use "smart quotes" instead. Open quote = numtochar(210) and close  
quote = numtochar(211). In my stack I use a rawkeydown handler to  
ensure that user-typed quotes are replaced with the appropriate smart  
quote. If the preceding character is in cr & space & tab or the char  
is the first char of the field then replace with numtochar(210) else  
replace with numtochar(211). (For imported text, process the text  
using the same rules before putting it into the field.) Then the word  
counts work properly and all you have to do is make sure that any  
colorization/formatting excludes an initial or trailing smart quote  
(looks better that way).

The general problem here is that, contrary to all other computing  
contexts I know about, in Rev anything enclosed by true quotation  
marks is regarded by the engine as one word. This causes no end of  
problems for text manipulation (which I do a lot of). PITA.

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
pmbrig at gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig


On May 3, 2010, at 3:22 PM, John Patten wrote:

> Hi All...
>
> I'm working on a little student utility that changes the text color  
> and underlines the individual word in the target field as they hit  
> the space bar. I'm wondering how I should handle passages of text  
> that are surrounded by quotation marks?
>
> I was taking the text passage and stripping out the quotes to get  
> the total number of words in the field. Then using that number and  
> reducing it to target the specific words in the field to modify  
> their text style.
>
> The quotation marks create a single word out of the phrase, and if I  
> attempt to delete a quote and then add it back the total number of  
> words in my variable is off. In any case, everything gets all wonky  
> when there are quotes in the passage...
>
>
> Anyone done something similar?
>
>
> Thank you!
>
> John Patten
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