"System" font on Mac - diff between LC 8 and LC 9??

Colin Holgate colinholgate at gmail.com
Tue Apr 11 23:21:51 EDT 2017


Yes, same here. I’m on 10.12.5, but I imagine it would behave the same on older systems.


> On Apr 11, 2017, at 8:14 PM, James Hale via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Could other with a Mac please give this a go to see if my observation is local to my machine alone?
> 
> Create a new stack in LC8 and place a field.
> Open the message box and enter...
> 	 set the htmltext of fld 1 to "this is <b>bold</b> and this is <i>italic</i>"
> 
> You should see 
>      this is bold and this is italic
> (assuming the styles survive the emailing)
> Now open the PI for the field and click on the FONT tab.
> I think by default the font is called "Text" and it is one of the Lc named options.
> Now change the font to "system".
> 
> Do the styles remain visible in the field?
> 
> Repeat the above with LC 9
> 
> For me...
> With LC8 the styles disappear.
> With LC9 they don't.
> 
> 
> 
> James
> 
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