Hi Chris, I'll confirm LC 5.0.2 OSX 6.8 -- "are" does not appear in italics.
I've noticed this in the past. Setting Arial to bold, etc in the inspector doesn't have any effect either. I have no idea why. be well, randy ----- On Dec 21, 2011, at 4:42 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote: > I've about driven myself crazy over this one today, but it turns out I think > I may have found a bug. Either that or very strange expected behavior. So I'm > wondering if someone wouldn't mind checking this for me to see if the results > are the same. Should only take a couple minutes. > > Create a new stack. Place one field on it. Make the stack, field, and font > size large enough to read easily on an iPad (or in the simulator). Set the > font of the field to Arial. In the preOpenCard handler, set the htmlText of > the field. Something like: > > set the htmlText of fld 1 to "<p>Howdy! How <i>are</i> you today?</p>" > > Set the standalone settings for iPad, etc. Launch it in the simulator. Does > the word "are" appear in italics? It doesn't for me. Should it? The same > thing works fine in the IDE. But when run in the simulator or on a device the > text is not styled. I did just try using Helvetica instead of Arial and that > seems to work okay. Unfortunately, I need Arial and not Helvetica. > > Anybody have any suggestions here? This is very nearly a showstopper if it's > a bug. Really need this to work. > > Thanks, > Chris > > > -- > Chris Sheffield > Read Naturally, Inc. > www.readnaturally.com > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
