Re: Changing the Style of Words in Field And Quotation Marks?

2010-05-05 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I too think that quotes do not make a word, and I guess most people would agree to that. Common sense and programming syntax are way too far away in Rev, and the word keyword is unusable (unless doing dirty workarounds) on normal text due to this. Said that, the quote being part of the chunk

Re: Changing the Style of Words in Field And Quotation Marks?

2010-05-04 Thread Peter Brigham MD
Re: quoted text is treated as one word, On May 3, 2010, at 7:26 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Michael wrote: Hi: I'm inclined to disagree. I would vote to keep the current behavior. m I could easily have overlooked some simple reason to retain it. How do you use it, generally? I'd like to

Re: Changing the Style of Words in Field And Quotation Marks?

2010-05-04 Thread Peter Brigham MD
You can accomplish this by using a non-breaking space (Mac = option- space, chartonum(202)). -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On May 4, 2010, at 9:43 AM, Michael Kann wrote: Peter, The current quoted-text convention might be useful if the

Re: Changing the Style of Words in Field And Quotation Marks?

2010-05-04 Thread Michael Kann
Peter, That's a clever solution, thanks. Mike --- On Tue, 5/4/10, Peter Brigham MD pmb...@gmail.com wrote: From: Peter Brigham MD pmb...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Changing the Style of Words in Field And Quotation Marks? To: How to use Revolution use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Date: Tuesday,

Re: Changing the Style of Words in Field And Quotation Marks?

2010-05-04 Thread Jeff Massung
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Peter Brigham MD pmb...@gmail.com wrote: Re: quoted text is treated as one word, On May 3, 2010, at 7:26 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Michael wrote: Hi: I'm inclined to disagree. I would vote to keep the current behavior. m I could easily have overlooked

Re: Changing the Style of Words in Field And Quotation Marks?

2010-05-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jeff Massung wrote: I use this feature quite often in almost all my Rev apps. On Windows, when applications install themselves they update the registry saying how to use various types of file extensions. For example: HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\QuickTime.mov\shell\open\command c:\Program

Re: Changing the Style of Words in Field And Quotation Marks?

2010-05-04 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On May 4, 2010, at 2:00 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Jeff Massung wrote: I use this feature quite often in almost all my Rev apps. On Windows, when applications install themselves they update the registry saying how to use various types of file extensions. For example:

Re: Changing the Style of Words in Field And Quotation Marks?

2010-05-03 Thread Devin Asay
On May 3, 2010, at 1:22 PM, John Patten wrote: Hi All... I'm working on a little student utility that changes the text color and underlines the individual word in the target field as they hit the space bar. I'm wondering how I should handle passages of text that are surrounded by

Re: Changing the Style of Words in Field And Quotation Marks?

2010-05-03 Thread Chipp Walters
Or, you could just check if the character is a quote and increment your counter justly. Seems to me the easiest way to do this. Chipp Walters CEO, Shafer Walters Group, Inc On May 3, 2010, at 2:36 PM, Devin Asay devin_a...@byu.edu wrote: On May 3, 2010, at 1:22 PM, John Patten wrote: Hi

Re: Changing the Style of Words in Field And Quotation Marks?

2010-05-03 Thread Peter Brigham MD
I tried your approach and got bogged down, and finally cut the Gordian knot by avoiding the problem altogether. What I ended up doing was making sure that there are no true quotation marks in the text field -- use smart quotes instead. Open quote = numtochar(210) and close quote =

Re: Changing the Style of Words in Field And Quotation Marks?

2010-05-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Peter Brigham MD wrote: The general problem here is that, contrary to all other computing contexts I know about, in Rev anything enclosed by true quotation marks is regarded by the engine as one word. It's for HC compatibility, which worked the same way. You can often get around it like

Re: Changing the Style of Words in Field And Quotation Marks?

2010-05-03 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On May 3, 2010, at 5:29 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Peter Brigham MD wrote: The general problem here is that, contrary to all other computing contexts I know about, in Rev anything enclosed by true quotation marks is regarded by the engine as one word. It's for HC compatibility, which

Re: Changing the Style of Words in Field And Quotation Marks?

2010-05-03 Thread Jeff Massung
Just a thought that might be a lot more helpful... Given the context of this application, and the fact that you probably don't want the quotes (and other punctuation) to be highlighted/underlined, I'd just use a regular expression like so (untested): function getNextWord pText, pFrom local

Re: Changing the Style of Words in Field And Quotation Marks?

2010-05-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Peter Brigham MD wrote: On May 3, 2010, at 5:29 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Peter Brigham MD wrote: The general problem here is that, contrary to all other computing contexts I know about, in Rev anything enclosed by true quotation marks is regarded by the engine as one word. It's for HC

Re: Changing the Style of Words in Field And Quotation Marks?

2010-05-03 Thread Michael
Hi: I'm inclined to disagree. I would vote to keep the current behavior. m On 5/3/10 3:40 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: I'm inclined to agree. Put it in the QCC for us? ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Changing the Style of Words in Field And Quotation Marks?

2010-05-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Michael wrote: Hi: I'm inclined to disagree. I would vote to keep the current behavior. m I could easily have overlooked some simple reason to retain it. How do you use it, generally? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software |