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From: leonardr@svc.portal.com (Leonard Rosenthol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Exporting styled text from HC 2.0
Message-ID: <1990Oct18.172737.15886@svc.portal.com>
Date: 18 Oct 90 17:27:37 GMT
References: <1990Oct18.030722.21087@midway.uchicago.edu>
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In article <1990Oct18.030722.21087@midway.uchicago.edu>,
tisue@tartarus.uchicago.edu (Seth Tisue) writes:
> 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 like to be 
> able to type a letter into a field and then save it to a word-processor-
> readable file without losing all the character formatting info.  
> Is this possible?

	From raw Hypertalk, no, this is not possible - however one of the
new HC 2.0 XCMD callbacks (GetFieldTE) will allow an XCMD to get the full
stylized contents of a field, and then do what it wants with it.  So if there
is some enterprising individual out there who wants to write the HC->MacWrite
(or whatever) XCMD, it is not difficult...
--
Leonard Rosenthol
Software Ventures Corp.
MicroPhone II Development Team