What is a Tedit "stylesheet" ?

[rmkaplan]

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[rmkaplan]

Oops, returned to soon.

Here is my issue: There is a certain amount of complexity in the Tedit code that deals with "style sheets". But I can't find any mention of them in the Tedit documentation--how are they set, what do they do?

So, in cleaning this up, it isn't clear what if any of this needs to be preserved--or whether it needs to be enhanced in some user-accessible way.

Does anybody know?

[masinter]

I'm not sure of the order of things, but I think "style sheets" --as a way of separating content from its "looks" -- may have been nascent when the bulk of TEdit was built. TEdit did separate the stream of text from the looks (font, size, etc.) which I think was done for Bravo and BravoX. Perhaps a work in progress? Are there dates associated with the style sheet notion and other TEdit changes?

[rmkaplan]

All related functions are from July 1993. Each piece has its own looks, but it may be that the intent was for some of the fields of a piece to be left out and defaulted to whatever the current style is. That would be reasonable—to be able to have a “style” for function names that picks a font, size, italics, whatever, and you would just say that a given string in a document is a function. But there doesn’t seem to be any public interface for this—how do you set up a style sheet? How do you pick one for a given selection? For example, there doesn’t seem to be a style item in any of the menus And, there doesn’t seem to be any code that would address some obvious situations. What if the definition of a style changes while you are editing a document—should all the affected pieces be updated and reformatted? Should the styles be saved with the document, so it always starts out the way it was saved? Etc.

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On Sep 15, 2022, at 11:05 AM, Larry Masinter ***@***.***> wrote: I'm not sure of the order of things, but I think "style sheets" --as a way of separating content from its "looks" -- may have been nascent when the bulk of TEdit was built. TEdit did separate the stream of text from the looks (font, size, etc.) which I think was done for Bravo and BravoX. Perhaps a work in progress? Are there dates associated with the style sheet notion and other TEdit changes? — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#941 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AQSTUJIUGLFGQSG4SA76GQDV6NQOTANCNFSM6AAAAAAQNTYIFQ>. You are receiving this because you authored the thread.

[pamoroso]

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[pamoroso]

Can this issue be moved to a discussion?

[rmkaplan]

Yes

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