At 3:46 PM -0600 on 7/2/99, Scott Raney wrote:
>PS: as for people who are asking that style information be kept in
>variables, you're dreaming. Implementation of virtually every
>command, function, and keyword would have to be altered to preserve
>style information. Off the top of my head, the only practical way I
>can think of to do it would be to expand every character into a long,
>which would expand everything by 4 and cut performance by about that
>much.
Agreed. It'd be hell to try and keep text & style information in sync
without a lot of changes... while it could be done for OpenCard by changing
away from plain-text variables, it would sitll require a major rewrite...
and it would kill performance.
If you must have styled text in variables, I'd happily give you a markup
form. Or even a special binary form. But you're on your own dealing with it.
