Complete Crash or Engine Hang: which is better?

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Mon May 3 13:07:48 EDT 2021


Mark Smith wrote:

 > Frightening and wonderful at the same time. When I did these exercises
 > and then copy pasted a styledText string from LC into TextEdit, it was
 > interesting to see what they agreed on, and what they didn't. For
 > example, when colouring “numbers” both fields ignored numbers followed
 > by “,” but not by a “.” So they were in agreement there. However,
 > words containing a “y” were italicized in LC (that was the request)
 > but interpreted as bold/underlined in TextEdit?
 >
 > More remarkably, I have no idea how they can stuff that much style
 > info into a text string 😊


It might be interesting to see the htmlText from the source LC field to 
see how the style info is nested, if you're in a position to share it, 
or a sanitized version of it.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
  Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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