Text Styles: Expanded, condensed

[J. Landman Gay]

LC no longer manipulates text directly to produce styles, it now uses the 
equivalent font. This happens with all text styles including bold, italic, 
etc. If the font family includes a styled version it is used, otherwise 
there is no change.

I can't remember if the swap happens automatically in all cases. Recently I 
needed a bold font and it didn't work, I had to install the bold version of 
the font and use that instead. I think that was because the bold version 
was its own font family.

--
Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com



On February 17, 2018 10:12:24 AM Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode 
<use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Yes, Richmond, I had the same results trying to set text in LC 8.7. A 
> script will set chars to “condensed” but the spacing doesn’t change, and 
> the visual look is degraded. Maybe with a LC upgrade along the line 
> somebody forgot about those styles, and no one noticed? I can understand 
> that to maintain compatibility with HTML 5, the <condensed> and <expanded> 
> tags might be dropped. But that should come much later.
>
> Peter
>
>> On Feb 17, 2018, at 4:02 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode 
>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>> That reference is all about htmlText . . .
>>
>> Having a look at Revolution Media Build 950 Version 4.0.0 on Mac OS 10.7.5 
>> . . .
>>
>> [Not as daft as I look: always a good idea to hang onto old, licensed 
>> versions.]
>>
>> I found this:
>>
>> set the textStyle of line 1 of field "Main" to condensed
>>
>> So; like Hank Wangford in search of "the Lonesome Yodel" I climbed onto 
>> Rosinanti #2 and set forth:
>>
>> 4.5: still there.
>>
>> 7.1.4: gone.
>>
>> That looks like a deliberate choice.
>>
>> Mind you, doing this in RR 4.5:
>>
>> set the textStyle of fld "gg" to condensed
>>
>> is horrible: it does NOT condense the text at all,
>> merely  makes things look like something bitmapped from about 1996.
>>
>> Opening the stack containing a field with condensed text that I authored in 
>> RR 4.5 in LC 8.1.9
>> is interesting insofar as:
>>
>> the text in fld "gg" does NOT look condensed, BUT on doing this in the 
>> Message Box:
>>
>> put the textStyle of fld "gg"
>>
>> I get "condensed" . . .
>>
>> A bad case of 'The Phantom of the Opera'.
>>
>> Best, Richmond.
>>
>>
>> On 17/2/2018 5:41 am, Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode wrote:
>>> Did support for the text styles “expanded” and “condensed” disappear at 
>>> some point from Livecode?
>>>
>>> I see in this that they were added in the misty past:
>>>
>>> http://docs.runrev.com/Property/HTMLText
>>>
>>> They are not in the dictionary now, or Font menu, and setting those with a 
>>> script doesn’t work.
>>>
>>> I loved using those styles in Hypercard back in the day…
>>>
>>> Peter Bogdanoff
>>> ArtsInteractive
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