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Formatting chunks of text with Lingo

The Director interface lets you format a variety of text characteristics, such as the font, size, style, and line spacing. Using Lingo, you can format text dynamically as the movie plays. You can also use Lingo to rapidly format text during authoring.

 
Formatting text with Lingo

Lingo can format text in an entire cast member or any specific chunk of text using the following properties.

To select or identify a chunk of text in a field cast member, use the selStart and selEnd cast member properties. These properties identify the first and last characters of a text selection. See selStart and selEnd.

To refer to a selected chunk of text, use the selection cast member property. See selection (text cast member property).

To specify the font for a text cast member, field cast member, or chunk expression, set the font cast member property. See font.

To specify the character size for a text cast member, field cast member, or chunk expression, set the fontSize property. See fontSize.

To specify the line spacing for a field cast member, set the lineHeight property. See lineHeight (cast member property).

To specify the style for a text cast member, field cast member, or chunk expression, set the fontStyle property. See fontStyle.

To specify the drop shadow size for the characters in a field cast member, set the boxDropShadow property. See boxDropShadow.

To specify additional spacing applied to a chunk expression in a text cast member, set the charSpacing property. See charSpacing.

To specify the foreground color for a field cast member, set the foreColor property. See color().

 
Applying paragraph formats with Lingo

Lingo can control paragraph formatting such as alignment and indenting for a chunk expression.

To set text alignment for a text or field cast member, set the alignment property. See alignment.

To set line spacing in points for a text cast member, set the fixedLineSpace property. See fixedLineSpace.

To add pixels below paragraphs in a text cast member, set the bottomSpacing property. See bottomSpacing.

To add pixels above paragraphs in a text cast member, set the topSpacing property. See topSpacing.

To specify line spacing in a field cast member, set the lineHeight property. See lineHeight (cast member property).

To add pixels to the first indent in a chunk expression in a text cast member, set the firstIndent property. See firstIndent.

To set the left indent (in pixels) of a chunk expression in a text cast member, set the leftIndent property. See leftIndent.

To set the right indent (in pixels) of a chunk expression in a text cast member, set the rightIndent property. See rightIndent.

To specify or obtain a list of tabs that are in a chunk expression in a text cast member, set or test the tabs property. See tabs.