Not many people know this.

[Richard Gaskin]

Clarence wrote:

 > So, is this the same thing as the "paragraph" property? I find that
 > this is also super useful.

Related, but different enough to draw attention to.

AFAIK all xTalks have supported styled text.  It may be that HC 1.0 only 
provided that for the whole field (I can't recall), but if so it wasn't 
long before it joined the other xTalks in allowing us to assign style 
attributes like textFont, textSize, and textStyle using chunk 
expressions so we can apply them to lines, words, and characters.

Paragraph-level formatting opens up wholly new opportunities, beyond any 
xTalk I've ever seen.

I'm not sure if this info has been incorporated into the docs system 
yet, but the Release Notes for v5.5 offer a solid overview of the new 
field features (starting on p12), most of which are paragraph-level 
properties like indent, border, padding, etc. (p19), along with the 
wonderfully efficient styledText array representation of field contents 
([p16) and super-useful indented lists a la HTML and word processors (p18):
https://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/5_5_4/LiveCodeNotes-5_5_4.pdf

With these features you can add very satisfying word processing features 
to your desktop apps.

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