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From: ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Exporting styled text from HC 2.0
Message-ID: <1990Oct18.142957.4954@sics.se>
Date: 18 Oct 90 14:29:57 GMT
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In <1990Oct18.030722.21087@midway.uchicago.edu> tisue@tartarus.uchicago.edu (Seth Tisue) writes:

>if there's an answer.  Is there any way to import and/or export styled text
>(i.e., text with boldface, italics, etc.) in and out of HC?  For example, I'd

  HC 2.0 exports styled text by giving the style information in a scrap data
type called 'styl'. This is the official interchange format for formatted text
on the Macintosh, but I haven't seen any program (except HC) that obeys to
these guidelines.

  It would be great if someone could make a Clipboard magician tool for 
converting different style-information to/from the 'styl' format.