Re: XyWrite and XML

[cld@xxxxxxxx (Carl Distefano)]

Reply to note from "J. R. Fox"  Tue, 03 Jun 2003
11:05:12 -0800

Jordan:

> I take it this was more than a simple keyboard macro, in order
> to test for whether you're at the beginning or the end (itals
> ON / OFF).

I think Patricia was speaking of the XY4.KBD assignment for Ctrl+I,
which is a call to a routine named ITALIC in the Xy4 DiaLoG file
(XY4.DLG). (There are analogous frames BOLD, UNDER(line), etc.,
assigned to Ctrl+B, Ctrl+U, etc.) I've played with it a bit since
yesterday; my gripe is that, with text DeFined, it doesn't act as a
toggle. If the DeFined text is MoDe NorMal, it italicizes the
DeFined block, as you'd expect. But if the block is already
italicized, it doesn't remove the italics; it embeds  at the
end of the block, italicizing what follows. That makes no sense,
and couldn't have been what was intended.

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