weird font behavior

[Richard Gaskin]

Randolph Valentine wrote:
> Hi, all. I have a weird development in a stack with formatted HTML text in
> it. For some reason, some of the text shows at 3 point size, and in other
> cases seems to be appropriate size. When I copy and paste the text into
> Word, it is the appropriate size. What could be causing this weird display
> issue in my stack? This seems to be case with all versions of Livecode I try
> (5 and 6), and it shows up in both Macintosh and Windows Livecode apps. Any
> ideas of what's wrong? The font is nothing exotic.

html <> htmlText

If you're setting the htmlText from html, you'll discover that <font 
size=3> means something different in browsers than it does in LC.

In a browser font sizes 1 through 8 are shorthand for larger sizes, used 
in the pre-CSS days for things like section headers, while in LC all 
font sizes are interpreted as literal point values.

You may want to check the htmlText of the field and determine if that's 
the case, perhaps doing a replace on those to a size specifier better 
suited for LC.

Another possibility may be that the font size isn't specified in the 
styled text run at all, but is set too small in the field's textSize 
property.

Let us know what you find....

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