Re: OK, but what do 'attributes' look like?
Re: OK, but what do 'attributes' look like?
- Subject: Re: OK, but what do 'attributes' look like?
- From: Scott Anguish <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 14:17:02 -0500
On Mar 9, 2004, at 1:47 AM, Denis Stanton wrote:
"You can assign any attribute name/value pair you wish ". This
doesn't make sense to me. Surely for the text to appear in a certain
font I have to identify that font using a name that the compiler
will recognise. Making up my own key value pair will not
communicate anything useful.
It allows for flexibility -- suppose you wanted to mark up text with
special attributes for class names. Apple hasn't provided an
attribute for that, but you can create, and assign, your own...
Being allowed to make up my one language would be great - if I only
wanted to talk to myself. It surprised me here, because I actually
want to communicate something to the compiler, and it seems only
logical that I should use a terms that it will recognise. I
understand that the flexibility is providing for more complex needs,
where I might be handing the output myself.
not all the attributes that you'll assign to a range of text have to
be displayed by the text system..
there are other situations. For example, you might keep your own data
attached to that that you can detect when you're using a selection
containing that information (I've done something similar, in that text
was attached to ranges of text in the selection as additional
information.
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