Paragraph-level formatting

[Alan Golub]

Thanks -- I'd love to see how you put this together. 

Alan
 
On Saturday, November 20, 2004, at 03:03AM, MisterX <b.xavier at internet.lu> wrote:

>im trying to find this stack i made long ago to clean up paragraphs. It has
>what you want including justification! Works with monospace fonts but it
>might be adaptable to normal fonts using the formattedwidth of text...
>
>I'll let you know when I find it... 
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com 
>> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
>> Alan Golub
>> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 03:21
>> To: How to use Revolution
>> Subject: Re: Paragraph-level formatting
>> 
>> 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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