Complete Crash or Engine Hang: which is better?
Richard Gaskin
ambassador at fourthworld.com
Mon May 3 13:07:48 EDT 2021
Mark Smith wrote:
> Frightening and wonderful at the same time. When I did these exercises
> and then copy pasted a styledText string from LC into TextEdit, it was
> interesting to see what they agreed on, and what they didn't. For
> example, when colouring “numbers” both fields ignored numbers followed
> by “,” but not by a “.” So they were in agreement there. However,
> words containing a “y” were italicized in LC (that was the request)
> but interpreted as bold/underlined in TextEdit?
>
> More remarkably, I have no idea how they can stuff that much style
> info into a text string 😊
It might be interesting to see the htmlText from the source LC field to
see how the style info is nested, if you're in a position to share it,
or a sanitized version of it.
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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