Actually it is possible to ensure the baselines of fields are consistent across
platforms without having to use conditionals.
From experimentation it appears that the baseline is given (relative to the top
of the field) by
the top margin - 3*fontAscent/4 -1
where the
You could try an svg text widget. Just a unsubstantiated thought.
Sean Cole
Pi Digital
> On 4 Sep 2022, at 20:35, Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> My project, Music In the Air, has text on pages like a book where we need
> Windows line wrapping to match exactly the Mac so that
My project, Music In the Air, has text on pages like a book where we need
Windows line wrapping to match exactly the Mac so that text flow to the next
page is identical.
The solution I came up with is to process the text for Windows in advance—add
CRs to each visible line of the Mac text field
I had a quick turnaround job for some guys in Ghana. It made it a complete
nightmare as I had done the original build in Windows, their main platform, and
they wanted a backup for Mac. As this was for a TV show where the text was
dynamic but had to be identical on both it made it almost impossib
So I have conducted a more careful test of the proposed method of standardising
fonts across platforms, that is, installing some Google fonts in the standalone
for use in labels and fields, with the objective of setting the rects of
objects on the development platform and having the same appeara
