Thanks for your replies guys! @Richmond: You may be right. it looks like a PITA, but RTF seems to be the only formatted option that is somewhat portable to other apps... @Richard: I guess an enhancment request is a good idea @Bernd: My Problem was (/is) to keep the tabs aligned across lines / paragraphs.
One of the major Problem seems to be that liveCode creates a paragraph for each line, while this is not necessariely needed. I am still reading into the rtf specs (boy, that is confusing). I managed to get something working cross applications and cross OS, that fits my purpose. I came up with this: on mouseUp local tHeader local tBody put "Short"&TAB&"Test" into fld "theRTFText" put cr&"Longer"&TAB&"Test" after fld "theRTFText" put cr&"very very long"&TAB&"Test" after fld "theRTFText" set the textStyle of word 1 of line 2 of fld "theRTFText" to "bold" set the textColor of word 1 of fld "theRTFText" to "red" put line 1 to 2 of the rtfText of fld "theRTFText" into tHeader put line 3 to -1 of the rtfText of fld "theRTFText" into tBody put cr after tHeader put "\paperw11900\paperh16840\margl1440\margr1440\vieww10800\viewh8400\viewkind0" after tHeader -- papersetup put cr after tHeader replace "\pard" with "\pard\tx2647\pardirnatural" in tBody -- add more tx for more TABSTOPS replace "\'09" with "\tab " in tBody -- Word! put "\par" before char -1 of tBody -- somehow missing in rtfText. Wordpad on Win complains if this is not there ask file "Save RTF file..." put tHeader & tBody into URL ("binfile:"&it) end mouseUp All the best, Malte _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode