RTFText, HTMLText, and Formatted Content in RR

erik hansen erikhans08 at yahoo.com
Sat Jul 19 16:07:03 EDT 2003


--- "Jeanne A. E. DeVoto" <jeanne at runrev.com>
wrote:
> There is a general distinction here to be made,
> between character
> formatting and paragraph formatting.
> 
> Character formatting - font, size, style, and
> color changes that may be
> applied to any part of a line or lines - is
> well-supported in Rev using
> either HTML and RTF formats.
> 
> Paragraph formatting - alignment of individual
> paragraphs, header levels,
> list formats, and so on - is not. This is not
> so much because of lack of
> support in the RTFText and HTMLText properties,
> per se, as because fields
> don't support these things (at least not yet).
> A field is more like a
> SimpleText window than like a Word window, in
> terms of the formatting
> options it supports: you can do character
> formatting, but although you can
> set alignment, tab stops, and margins
> field-wide, you can't set them for
> individual paragraphs.
> 
> I don't suppose this observation really helps,
> in terms of getting the
> formatting you want to import from Word, but it
> may help clarify why some
> things are supported and others aren't, and
> help you predict what
> formatting will and won't transfer.
> 
> I know that some of these paragraph formatting
> options for fields have been
> feature requested - because *I've* requested
> them ;-) - and I anticipate
> that if and when they're added to fields, the
> RTFText property will also be
> updated to support them.

how about using a field for each paragraph?

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erik at erikhansen.org    http://www.erikhansen.org

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