Not many people know this.

[Mark Waddingham]

On 2018-08-16 11:32, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote:
> 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.

Indeed!

All characters in a field can have a distinct textFont, textStyle and 
textSize (and a number of other properties - they are called 'char level 
styles' - in the docs you can see the ones which are which show an 
example which is 'the ... of char of field' IIRC).

If such a char level property is empty for a given char, then it 
inherits from the field.

This has 'always been the case' - the only difference to it in the last 
10 years is when we made it so textFont/textSize and textStyle 
independent. Previously, if you set one at the char level - all three 
would be set.

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

P.S. The engine doesn't actually store things per-char - but in runs - 
i.e. if the complete set of properties for char N ... N+M are identical, 
then it stores that information. This reduces the overhead of the 
per-char styles to when they are used, rather than universally.

-- 
Mark Waddingham ~ mark at livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/
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