Re: [MacPerl] StyledText data into a record of text and styl

[John W Baxter]

At 12:35 +0000 3/19/01, Alan Fry wrote:
>As you said in an earlier post this _presumes_ that the number
>following each 'four character group' will be a 'long'. In the case
>of the MSWD extract above 'DSIG' is an MS key, rather than a MacOS
>key, so one would be reliant on BG doing the expected thing. As you
>said before, and I missed the point, that's the tricky bit.
>
>My apologies for not having read your original post carefully enough
>and thanks for the interesting idea. As you say, it is a robust way
>of doing it by purely Perl methods.

Well, other applications are able to paste styled text with MS Word copied.
If the format of the Scrap were incorrect, they wouldn't be.

  --John
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John Baxter   [EMAIL PROTECTED]      Port Ludlow, WA, USA