Yay, this worked! Thanks again for the suggestion. Don't think I would have thought of it on my own.
Chris On Dec 21, 2011, at 8:27 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 12/21/11 4:42 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote: > >> 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. > > > I vaguely recall something similar happening to me. What I think is going on > is that iOS won't generate fake styles like bold and italic; it will only use > fonts that have separate style faces in the font family. I haven't tried it, > but it might work to set the font name rather than the style: > > <p>Howdy! How <font="Arial-ItalicMT">are</font> you today?</p> > > The font names for iOS 5 are here: <http://iosfonts.com/>. iOS 4 has all the > Arials too. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.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
