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From: jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Keeping styled text using put in field command
Keywords: styled text, put command vs. copy and paste
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Date: 29 May 91 04:28:34 GMT
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Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <3850@beguine.UUCP> mikef@bbs.acs.unc.edu (Michael Freedburg) writes:
>Is it really the case that the put command does not retain styled text
>or is there some other thing I need to do in order to maintain the text
>as I typed it in??

>What is the story with HyperCard 2.1 and exporting styled text using the
>write command?

You aren't missing anything: "put" only deals with the text, not with the
styles. I have heard tales from some people to the effect that they were
working on XCMDs that would bring the style record along with the text, but
I have not seen any actual, working code that does this. Yet.

2.1 has some expansions to the write command - in particular, it lets you
write to a file starting at a specified position. But it doesn't have
anything that lets you write styled text to a file.

Copy and paste works OK for moving text styles, although it is a little
more cumbersome (and has the disadvantage that it clobbers whatever was
on the clipboard) than get/put.
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