LC no longer manipulates text directly to produce styles, it now uses the
equivalent font. This happens with all text styles including bold, italic,
etc. If the font family includes a styled version it is used, otherwise
there is no change.
I can't remember if the swap happens automatically in all cases. Recently I
needed a bold font and it didn't work, I had to install the bold version of
the font and use that instead. I think that was because the bold version
was its own font family.
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
On February 17, 2018 10:12:24 AM Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
Yes, Richmond, I had the same results trying to set text in LC 8.7. A
script will set chars to “condensed” but the spacing doesn’t change, and
the visual look is degraded. Maybe with a LC upgrade along the line
somebody forgot about those styles, and no one noticed? I can understand
that to maintain compatibility with HTML 5, the <condensed> and <expanded>
tags might be dropped. But that should come much later.
Peter
On Feb 17, 2018, at 4:02 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
That reference is all about htmlText . . .
Having a look at Revolution Media Build 950 Version 4.0.0 on Mac OS 10.7.5
. . .
[Not as daft as I look: always a good idea to hang onto old, licensed
versions.]
I found this:
set the textStyle of line 1 of field "Main" to condensed
So; like Hank Wangford in search of "the Lonesome Yodel" I climbed onto
Rosinanti #2 and set forth:
4.5: still there.
7.1.4: gone.
That looks like a deliberate choice.
Mind you, doing this in RR 4.5:
set the textStyle of fld "gg" to condensed
is horrible: it does NOT condense the text at all,
merely makes things look like something bitmapped from about 1996.
Opening the stack containing a field with condensed text that I authored in
RR 4.5 in LC 8.1.9
is interesting insofar as:
the text in fld "gg" does NOT look condensed, BUT on doing this in the
Message Box:
put the textStyle of fld "gg"
I get "condensed" . . .
A bad case of 'The Phantom of the Opera'.
Best, Richmond.
On 17/2/2018 5:41 am, Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode wrote:
Did support for the text styles “expanded” and “condensed” disappear at
some point from Livecode?
I see in this that they were added in the misty past:
http://docs.runrev.com/Property/HTMLText
They are not in the dictionary now, or Font menu, and setting those with a
script doesn’t work.
I loved using those styles in Hypercard back in the day…
Peter Bogdanoff
ArtsInteractive
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