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[Pythoncard-users] cascading style sheets (CSS) guide

[Kevin A. <al...@se...>]

http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/

If somebody knows of a better one online, let me know, the one above seems
adequate for our purposes. The w3.org stuff is impenetrable as usual, but
they have a lot of links.

BTW, I am not going to write the parser to handle CSS descriptions for the
prototype. Somebody else is going to have to tackle that. If that means that
we are stuck with a variation of my initial font description solution for a
while, then so be it. I am going to go ahead and tweak the defaults and add
some kind of named set of default fonts, probably in a dictionary that you
can add to during runtime.

The developers on wx-dev handling the wxHtmlWindow would be very interested
in a CSS parser, so if you're interested you should probably check in over
there first.

ka

Re: [Pythoncard-users] cascading style sheets (CSS) guide

[Neil H. <ne...@sc...>]

Kevin:

> BTW, I am not going to write the parser to handle CSS descriptions for the
> prototype. Somebody else is going to have to tackle that. If that means
that
> we are stuck with a variation of my initial font description solution for
a
> while, then so be it.

   Here is a parser for family lists which is the only extra functionality I
see as needed.

    Neil

RE: [Pythoncard-users] cascading style sheets (CSS) guide

[Kevin A. <al...@se...>]

Are we trying to be CSS-like or have people be able to copy an existing CSS
font-family description and use it in PythonCard?

The original
{ font-family: "New Century Schoolbook", Times, serif }

what I tested...

Test('"New Century Schoolbook", Times, serif')

produces

<"New Century Schoolboo", Times, serif>
['New Century Schoolboo', ',', 'Times,', 'serif']

My brain is too tired right now to grok what I need to do in the method that
sets the font facename and/or family, so I'll look at this again tomorrow. I
know I have to iterate through the list, but...

ka

> -----Original Message-----
> From: pyt...@li...
> [mailto:pyt...@li...]On Behalf Of Neil
> Hodgson
> Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 10:31 PM
> To: pyt...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Pythoncard-users] cascading style sheets (CSS) guide
>
>
> Kevin:
>
> > BTW, I am not going to write the parser to handle CSS
> descriptions for the
> > prototype. Somebody else is going to have to tackle that. If that means
> that
> > we are stuck with a variation of my initial font description
> solution for
> a
> > while, then so be it.
>
>    Here is a parser for family lists which is the only extra
> functionality I
> see as needed.
>
>     Neil
>

Re: [Pythoncard-users] cascading style sheets (CSS) guide

[Neil H. <ne...@sc...>]

Kevin Altis:

> Are we trying to be CSS-like or have people be able to copy an existing
> CSS font-family description and use it in PythonCard?

    I don't mind too much. I just want to be able to specify a font list in
a reasonable way without writing a lot of UI.

> The original
> { font-family: "New Century Schoolbook", Times, serif }

   Damn. I wrote my code from a book that got it wrong, not mentioning the
comma delimiter. Attached is a fixed version. It looks to be compliant with
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS1 although its probably not as forgiving as real
world browsers are.

> what I tested...
>
> Test('"New Century Schoolbook", Times, serif')
>
> produces
>
> <"New Century Schoolboo", Times, serif>
> ['New Century Schoolboo', ',', 'Times,', 'serif']

   I doubt that ;) The 'k' shouldn't disappear between being an argument and
being printed the first time.

   Neil