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TEXT STYLE RANGE ELEMENTS AND REFERENCE FORMS
BEFORE/
BY AFTER
ELEMENT NUMERIC BY BY BY SATISFYING ANOTHER
CLASS INDEX ID NAME RANGE A TEST ELEMENT
character • • • •
line • • • •
paragraph • • • •
story • • • • •
text • • •
text style • • • •
range
word • • • •
TEXT STYLE RANGE PROPERTIES, DATA TYPES, AND DESCRIPTIONS
R/O PROPERTY NAME TYPE DESCRIPTION
•
ascent font units Maximum ascent of any
character in this text
base shift base units Baseline shift of the first
character of this text
•
baseline vertical Vertical offset from the top
measurement of the containing text box
to the baseline of the first
character of this text
• best type type class Best descriptor type
character character spec Character spec applied
style to this text
• class type class The class
color color spec Color of the first character
of this text
contents plain text (string) Contents of this text
• default type type class Default descriptor type
•
descent font units Maximum descent of any
character in this text
font plain text Name of the font (string)
(string) of the first character in
this text
REFERENCE MATERIAL FOR QUARKXPRESS OBJECTS
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