Have you looked at the Smart Text Engine?  Granted it only supports the 
later devices (Treos and a few others), but it has all the features you 
describe.  Plus it will recognize phone #'s, emails, and URLs, and make 
them hyperlinks.  It's documented in the Treo600 Developer Guide, which 
you should be able to download from the Palm website.

-Aaron


; CN=ibwest/O=SYBASE; CN=HQMobileMail04/O=SYBASE wrote on 10/16/2007 
05:03:20 AM:

> I want to be able to use an enhanced multi-line FIELD-like widget 
> that can show bold, italics, superscript, different colors, and 
> different font sizes. It is a relatively small subset of what rtf 
> and html can deal with. It needs to be scrollable and with the 
> capability of forcing a certain line to be visible (i.e. make the 
> 50th line of a 200 line chapter be visible).
> 
> I realize this question has been asked before, but I wasn't able to 
> find anything that was particularly usable from looking at the 
> archives back to 2003 or so. I did find references to "plucker", but
> it seems to be GPL, which isn't an option.
> 
> As far as I could tell, the guidance seems to be to "roll your own" 
> ... to interpret "embedded tags" and change the font attributes for 
> drawing text. That wouldn't seem to be too bad for a small page that
> fits within the FIELD ... but a significant task for a page of 
> arbitrary size that implements "controlled scrollability" and "word-
> wrap" for a large page of content.
> 
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