Thanks -- I'd love to see how you put this together. Alan On Saturday, November 20, 2004, at 03:03AM, MisterX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>im trying to find this stack i made long ago to clean up paragraphs. It has >what you want including justification! Works with monospace fonts but it >might be adaptable to normal fonts using the formattedwidth of text... > >I'll let you know when I find it... > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of >> Alan Golub >> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 03:21 >> To: How to use Revolution >> Subject: Re: Paragraph-level formatting >> >> Ooohh -- you weren't kidding -- that IS ugly! Thanks for the >> idea, but I'm with you -- I hope someone heeds your call for >> a better solution. Anybody? >> >> On Friday, November 19, 2004, at 05:15PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >sez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> >>I've been playing around with the latest beta of SuperCard >> 4.5. One of >> >>the most helpful new additions is ... [that] I can create >> text styles >> >>and apply them on a per-paragraph (rather than a >> >>per-field) basis. >> >> >> >>I wonder -- is there a way to achieve this in Revolution? My >> >>experience is that field properties like firstIndent apply to the >> >>entire field. Is there a way to achieve this >> paragraph-level formatting with Rev? >> > Yes, there is -- but it's ugly. How ugly it is, well, YMMV, eh? >> > You can't do paragraph-level formatting *for real* in >> Rev; however, >> >what you *can* do is *fake* it with a series of however-many >> individual >> >text fields, each of them having its own "paragraph >> formatting" values. >> >Make sure all of these fields are transparent, group them >> all, and so on and so forth. >> > Like I said, it's ugly. But until the happy day when the engine >> >*really* supports paragraph-level formatting, I just don't >> see a better way to do it. >> >Anybody else have a better suggestion? Please? >> >_______________________________________________ >> >use-revolution mailing list >> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> use-revolution mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution >> > >_______________________________________________ >use-revolution mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
