apply bold format selectively within TextDisplay?

[kc]

Ah OK.  Thanks for the confirmation, good to know I'm not missing something 
obvious.

On Tuesday, October 16, 2012 3:43:16 PM UTC-4, McFarlane, David wrote:
>
> Correct on all counts.  TextDisplay applies the same text 
> characteristics to all the text, no way around that.  And as you 
> said, one could work around this to some extent with a Slide, 
> although that would not automatically adjust for text that may appear 
> in different places for different sentences.  For the ultimate in 
> control, you would have to go to Canvas.Text and associated methods 
> (see that topic in the E-Basic Help facility), I did that for one project. 
>
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>
> At 10/16/2012 02:14 PM Tuesday, kc wrote: 
> >Out of curiosity, I was wondering if anyone knows of a way to 
> >selectively set as "bold" only part of the text within a TextDisplay 
> >object.  My best guess is that this is impossible, but I don't know 
> >enough to rule out the possibility that some kind of special 
> >character or code could do this (for example, something analogous to 
> >the newline character '\n'). 
> > 
> >I am aware that a similar goal could be accomplished using a Slide 
> >object, so this is really just a question of how much one can push 
> >the capabilities of TextDisplay Objects. 
>
>

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