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From: gilbertd@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Don Gilbert)
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Subject: Re: Exporting styled text from HC 2.0
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Date: 18 Oct 90 21:38:39 GMT
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In article <1990Oct18.142957.4954@sics.se> ollef@sics.se (Olle Furberg) writes:
>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.
>

MacDraw II supports 'styl' text. Canvas 2 supports it.  I beleive MacWrite II does, but don't
have a copy of that here.  And a few of my own programs use it. It is
quite easy to program, as TextEdit does the work.

-- Don
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Don.Gilbert@Iubio.Bio.Indiana.Edu
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