Not many people know this.

[Richmond Mathewson]

In fact, one can "fine tune" this operation to have this sort of effect:

put the number of chars in fld "ff" into NF
if char NF of fld "ff" = "a" then
   set the textFont of char NF of fld "ff" to "MonsterMash"
   else
   set the textFont of char NF of fld "ff" to "UsualBoring"
end if

Richmond.

On 16/8/2018 12:32 pm, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
> So, mucking around as one does during one's Summer holiday I went 
> looking in the documentation of LiveCode
> (shock, horror) and could NOT find something that had bubbled up in my 
> diseased mind, so I tried it anyway,
> and . . . Ye Gods! It worked.
>
> Possibly I am reinventing the wheel here:
>
> set the textFont of word 3 to "Charcoal"
>
> This IS incredibly useful when one is typing to Mum in Sanskrit (as 
> one does) and wants to
> use a variant glyph (as one does continuously) as it allows one to 
> have 2 congruent fonts
> side-by-side featuring differing variants of standard glyphs.
>
> No: I know that that will not make many of you run out into the road 
> madly waving your
> underpants over your heads shouting "Ra, Ra, Rasputin!", but, 
> notwithstanding . . . it excites me
> no end.
>
> Richmond.