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From: lac@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Les Carr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Exporting styled text from HC 2.0
Message-ID: <4703@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Date: 19 Oct 90 11:39:25 GMT
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In <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.

MacWrite 2 certainly does, but its the only one I've been able to find.
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L.Carr@ecs.soton.ac.uk               Les Carr
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