styling text within an LC script

[Geoff Canyon]

FYI, adding the formatting commands in a variable and then setting the
HTMLtext will be *much* faster than formatting by setting styles in a field.

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 7:39 AM, Paul Dupuis <paul at researchware.com> wrote:

> Text in a variable (i.e "verse_line") can not be styled, at least in the
> same what you style text in a field (i.e. setting the textStyle property)
>
> To style text in a script, you either need to create the styling in a
> variable as htmlText or in an array as the styledText. I think for what
> you want htmlText is easier.
>
> You example becomes something like the code below to set the 3rd item of
> every lien to italics
>
> put empty into tHTMLText
> repeat for each line verse_line in field "original text"
>
>   put "<i>"& item 3 of verse_line &"</i>" into item 3 of verse_line --
> makes item 3 "italic"
>   put "<p>"& verse_line &"</p>" after tHTMLText
>
> end repeat
> set the htmlText of field "original text" to tHTMLText -- or you could put
> the styled version in a new field if you want
>
>
>
> On 11/10/2015 1:16 AM, Nicolas Cueto wrote:
> >> Have you looked up the "HTMLText" in the dictionary.
> > Yes. Thanks, though.
> >
> > I know LC objects can be styled. However, within a script itself? For
> > example:
> >
> > put line verse_number of field "original text" into verse_line
> > set the textStyle of item 3 of verse_line to "italic"
> >
> > Not that simple?
> >
> >
> > On 10 November 2015 at 14:53, <dunbarx at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi.
> >>
> >>
> >> Have you looked up the "HTMLText" in the dictionary.
> >>
> >>
> >> If I understand, this should help.
> >>
> >>
> >> Craig Newman
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Nicolas Cueto <niconiko at gmail.com>
> >> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> >> Sent: Mon, Nov 9, 2015 9:24 pm
> >> Subject: styling text within an LC script
> >>
> >>
> >> I've a script that combines tab-delimited text. Next, how to modify my
> >> script so
> >> that parts of the combined text become italicized (or bold, or
> >> underlined, or
> >> ...)?
> >>
> >> The tab-delimited text is:
> >>
> >> -----------------------------
> >> Paradiso.01 1
> >> La gloria di colui che tutto move The glory of the One who
> >> moves all
> >> things
> >> Paradiso.01 2 per l’universo penetra, e risplende permeates the
> >> universe
> >> and glows
> >> Paradiso.01 3 in una parte più e meno altrove. in one part
> >> more and in
> >> another less.
> >> -----------------------------
> >>
> >> This text
> >> becomes:
> >>
> >> --------------------------
> >> La gloria di colui che tutto move 01.1
> >> per
> >> l’universo penetra, e risplende
> >> in una parte più e meno altrove.
> >>      The glory
> >> of the One who moves all things
> >>      permeates the universe and glows
> >>      in
> >> one part more and in another less.
> >> ------------------------------
> >>
> >> Can an LC
> >> script italicize the Italian while leaving the English as is, so
> >> that the
> >> resulting multi-styled combined text can be copy-pasted from an LC
> >> text-object
> >> to another doc?
> >>
> >> Grazie mille.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Nicolas
> >> Cueto
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