Paragraph-level formatting

[Alan Golub]

Ooohh -- you weren't kidding -- that IS ugly! Thanks for the idea, but I'm with you -- I hope someone heeds your call for a better solution. Anybody?
 
On Friday, November 19, 2004, at 05:15PM, <Cubist at aol.com> wrote:

>sez asg618 at mac.com:
>>I've been playing around with the latest beta of SuperCard 4.5. One of the
>>most helpful new additions is ... [that] I can
>>create text styles and apply them on a per-paragraph (rather than a
>>per-field) basis.
>>
>>I wonder -- is there a way to achieve this in Revolution? My experience is
>>that field properties like firstIndent apply to the entire field. Is there a
>>way to achieve this paragraph-level formatting with Rev?
>   Yes, there is -- but it's ugly. How ugly it is, well, YMMV, eh?
>   You can't do paragraph-level formatting *for real* in Rev; however, what 
>you *can* do is *fake* it with a series of however-many individual text fields, 
>each of them having its own "paragraph formatting" values. Make sure all of 
>these fields are transparent, group them all, and so on and so forth.
>   Like I said, it's ugly. But until the happy day when the engine *really* 
>supports paragraph-level formatting, I just don't see a better way to do it. 
>Anybody else have a better suggestion? Please?
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