Not many people know this.

[chipsm at themartinz.com]

I found this Paragraph Property because of Peter Haworth's LCStackBrowser
Plugin. 
I have had problems using LCStackBrowser as of late - since version 8x.x. I
think the problem actually stems from the Behavior Scripts in LCStackBrowser
and conflicts with the AutoComplete behaviors - I'm not sure just
speculating. 
I think that Peter has been frustrated getting Support to help solve the
problems.
I was hoping the Navigator was able to show the "Paragraph" properties, but
no.
Peter, if your listening:
I have a work around for using LCStackBrowser-
I don't auto load the plugin.
I load other plugins next -actually I auto load Navigator.
Then I load LCStackBrowser.
Why do I do it? :
I find that Geoff Canyon's Navigator to be an excellent tool. But there are
things that LCStackBrowser does also. I like the idea of being able to save
versions of the application you are building via LCStackBrowser among
several other features.
I would like to see a conglomeration of the two plugins (hint hint).
I am exhausted now!


Sincerely,

Clarence Martin
Email: Chipsm at themartinz.com
Cell: 626 696-5561

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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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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
  Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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