Table field text formating

[-= JB =-]

Brian,

I had heard that too but then after hearing they were doing a rewrite  
to improve
text and fields I was wondering if they were going the MLTE route.  I  
think MLTE
is based on ATSUI and if they used ATSUI it would allow kerning &  
tracking.

-=>JB<=-


On Dec 19, 2008, at 12:44 AM, Brian Yennie wrote:

> JB,
>
> FWIW, I believe the Rev text engine is something written  
> specifically for Rev to be cross-platform and does not plug in to  
> platform specific engines such as MLTE. So the upside is that they  
> can pretty much do whatever they want (and have it work cross  
> platform). The downside is that Rev doesn't always automatically  
> inherit OS-specific features.
>
> This may have changed in the past couple of years, but as far as I  
> know that's the case.
>
>> Thank you for the info and code.  I wasn't the one who started  
>> this thread and from your
>> statement about wrecking any text parsing I will hold off on  
>> justification for now.  But it is
>> important to know if the Rev Team decides to use Apples MLTE text  
>> engine you can be
>> assured Kerning and Tracking will not ever be made available so it  
>> is time to forget it or
>> write your own text engine using and extension or whatever.
>
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