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FILEMAKER FUNCTIONS REFERENCE 234

Description

Spellings for font names must be correct and are case-sensitive. Text formatting options will be lost

if the field type that is returned is something other than text.

FileMaker Pro looks for a font that matches the specified font name and font script character set. If

no matches exist, FileMaker

Pro looks for a default font with the font script specified in the Fonts tab

of the Preferences dialog box. If this fails, then the

TextFont function uses the default font for the

system script specified in the Fonts tab of the Preferences dialog box. This font might not be the

same as the font script provided.

The following font scripts are available:

• Roman

• Greek

• Cyrillic

• CentralEurope

• ShiftJIS

• TraditionalChinese

• SimplifiedChinese

• OEM

• Symbol

• Other

Examples

TextFont(“Plaid”;“Courier”) returns the word Plaid in the Courier font.

TextFont(“Plaid”;“Arial”) returns the word Plaid in the Arial font.

TextFont(“Plaid”;“Arial”;Cyrillic) returns the word Plaid in the Arial font in the font

script of Cyrillic.

TextSize( TextFont( TextColor( MyTable::MyText; RGB( 0 ; 125 ; 125 ) );

"Courier" ) ; 12)

returns the text contained in MyTable::MyText formatted as 12pt. green text

with the Courier font.