When htmlText goes wrong

[John]

   I am jumping in way late on this thread to I don’t know it this suggestion is even relevant.  When I have fields that need to display equations, or other “messy” things, I set the imageSource of a character in the field to an image I have imported into the stack.

   To generate the equations, the free (on the mac app store) “Daum equation editor” works very well and exports PNGs of your equations.  I was using latex in latexit (it also exports images) but that seemed more difficult.  If you have a background color or pattern and don’t want a white border around your equations, I find that pngweasle (also free) works well to provide transparency to the equation image.

Hope that helps,
John


On Jan 4, 2014, at 12:49 PM, stephen barncard <stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Alejandro Tejada <capellan2000 at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> I just keep wondering, How many of these Unicode characters,
>> written as HTML, displays correctly inside a field?
>> ​
>> http://unicode-table.com/en/
>> ​
>> 
> 
> ​just as a goofy test, I set the htmltext of a LC field to the source code
> of that URL….no translation   except to make the text black and readable.
> 
> It was not properly formatted for a field of course  (livecode doesn't do
> CSS and tables in the same way), but I saw a string of many properly
> displayed Unicode characters.​ It appeared as all banks were unique with
> all their parts.
> 
> I'm sure there's a 'standard unicode test' somewhere.
> 
> 
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