Language Guide

APPENDIX B

Scriptable Text Editor Dictionary

316 About Text Objects

text object. If any of the style constants (bold, italic, outline, underline,

and shadow) do not appear in either ﬁeld, it is because the styles apply to

some, but not all, of the characters in the object.

The following example shows the value of a Uniform Styles property for a

text object in which every character is bold and no characters are outlined

or shadowed:

{On Styles:{bold}, Off Styles:{outline, shadow}}

The fact that the italic and underline constants do not appear in either

ﬁeld means that at least one, but not all, of the characters in the object are

italicized and underlined. To ﬁnd out which characters are italicized or

underlined, you must examine the Style properties of each character in the

text object.

To set the styles of a text object, use a Copy or Set command to set the Style

property of the text object to one of the following:

■ a two-part record like the one described earlier for the value of a

Style property

■ a one-part record that speciﬁes either On Styles or Off Styles

■ a list specifying the On Styles

■ a constant specifying a single style

For example, here are four ways to use the Set command to set text styles:

set the style of word 1 to {On Styles:{italic}, 

Off Styles:{bold, shadow}}

set the style of word 1 to {On Styles:{italic, bold}}

set the style of word 1 to {bold, italic}

set the style of word 1 to italic

■ In the ﬁrst example, the styles speciﬁed in the On Styles property are added

to the active styles of word 1. The styles speciﬁed in the Off Styles property

are removed from the active styles of word 1. Styles that are not speciﬁed in

either property remain the same. For example, if word 1 is originally