Clarence wrote:
> So, is this the same thing as the "paragraph" property? I find that
> this is also super useful.
Related, but different enough to draw attention to.
AFAIK all xTalks have supported styled text. It may be that HC 1.0 only
provided that for the whole field (I can't recall), but if so it wasn't
long before it joined the other xTalks in allowing us to assign style
attributes like textFont, textSize, and textStyle using chunk
expressions so we can apply them to lines, words, and characters.
Paragraph-level formatting opens up wholly new opportunities, beyond any
xTalk I've ever seen.
I'm not sure if this info has been incorporated into the docs system
yet, but the Release Notes for v5.5 offer a solid overview of the new
field features (starting on p12), most of which are paragraph-level
properties like indent, border, padding, etc. (p19), along with the
wonderfully efficient styledText array representation of field contents
([p16) and super-useful indented lists a la HTML and word processors (p18):
https://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/5_5_4/LiveCodeNotes-5_5_4.pdf
With these features you can add very satisfying word processing features
to your desktop apps.
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Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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