HTML muddle

[Graham Samuel]

You probably can. But when I started trying to do this, it didn't work for some reason. For example, in the IDE I create a field and I write some text into it. A bit of this text is

 His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

I decide to make this red, bold, Perpetua, leaving the rest of the text in plain black Times New Roman. How, exactly? I can't get beyond Bold (command-B on the Mac). The colour swatches on the tool palette seem to have no effect, and I can't find a font menu. I completely believe that it's possible, but there is no intuitive way to do it that I can see straight off. In fact I haven't had to do this kind of thing much at all, which is probably why I picked such a wobbly solution. But I am willing to learn.

Thanks

Graham

> On 18 Feb 2015, at 20:26, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
> 
> On 2/18/2015 3:32 AM, Graham Samuel wrote:
>> This text is static in my standalone, but I have often needed to
>> change it during development. I have not found a simple way to do
>> this, and I have now resorted to having a ‘plain text’ field
>> (‘myText’) with the whole html of the target field in it, and at
>> initialisation time I execute:
>> 
>> set the htmlText of fld “myFormattedText” to fld “myText”
> 
> I'm confused. Why can't you just edit the text and its formatting in situ?
> 
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