set the textStyle not to bold

[Richard Gaskin]

Beat wrote:

> Thanks Richard &  Bj?rnke,
> 
> Richard wrote :
>  >
>  >You can use an anchor tag with no href and it will not show as
>  >underlined, but can store arbitrary textual data in the anchor tag's
>  >"name" attribute.
>  >...
>  >...
> 
>  >This allows you to use anchor tags to stash info for specific runs of
>  >text without altering the appearance of that text.
> 
> Thanks Richard, this is really a nice way to do this.
> I can use this for associating the position of the start- and end  
> characters.
> The thing for me is, that, as long as I am working on the text of the  
> fields, I need to visually see which texts have a reference. the  
> visual help should not interfere with the textStyles of that field.  
> That's why I went back to setting the backColor of that part of the  
> text instead of using a TextStyle for it.
> But as I said, the editing becomes harder, as I don't get to see my  
> selection (the selectionColor is probably behind the backColor). I'd  
> like to see the backColor of the 'marked' textparts and on top the  
> selectionColor of the parts that I have selected (best in 50% blend  
> mode). Would that be possible?
> 
> Maybe with a graphic that follows the selection, 'floating' behind  
> the field and setting the field's blendlevel to 15% for the time of  
> editing? Although I am sure there is a more elegant way.

I've tried using graphics for things like that.  Seems like fun at 
first, until you need to wrap across different lines.  Then you need to 
handle different textHeights.  Then you pull out all your hair. ;)

One of the cool things about htmlText is that it's designed as the one 
way to have complete fidelity for reproducing a field's contents, style 
runs and all.

So conceivably you could add in tags for backgroundcolor of the text 
runs you want visually distinct.  It can take a bit of clever parsing to 
get it right, but check out the optional third param for the offset 
function in the dictionary - it's a godsend for parsing tasks like this.

To see the format of htmlText, style some text in a field how you want 
it and run "put the htmlText of fld 1" in the Message Box.  Everything 
you can do with a field can be represented in htmlText, so conversely 
you can do anything to htmlText that you can do to a field.

Hope that helps -

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