TextStyleAdd: Substitute single letter keywords at the beginning of a sentence

[Quito]

Hi,

Using TextStyleAdd, I want to change the style of a single letter at the beginning of a sentence.  For example:

// SOAP

[ "S:" ; TextStyleAdd ( "S:" ; Bold ) ] ;

[ "O:" ; TextStyleAdd ( "O:" ; Bold ) ] ;

[ "A:" ; TextStyleAdd ( "A:" ; Bold ) ] ;

[ "P:" ; TextStyleAdd ( "P:" ; Bold ) ] ;

But I get this:

P:             -      P:           (correct)

SOAP:     -      SOAP:    (incorrect)

SOFA:     -      SOFA:    (incorrect)

Is there a way of adding search constraints to TextStyleAdd?  Or, is there a hidden character at the beginning of each line I can capture?

All the very best,

Daniel

[Dr.Gopala krishnam raju AMBATI]

HOPE i am giving you what u asked for

1ST LETTER BOLD.fmp12

version 2 

1ST LETTER v2.fmp12

Edited February 4, 2019 by Dr.Gopala krishnam raju AMBATI
my first help in this community :)

[comment]

3 hours ago, Quito said:

a single letter at the beginning of a sentence

It depends on how you define a "sentence".

If it's just the first letter of the entire field, then it's simple: isolate it using the Left() function and apply the style; then output the rest, using the Right() function. No substitution is required for this.

If it's something else, then it gets interesting.

[Quito]

20 hours ago, comment said:

It depends on how you define a "sentence".

If it's just the first letter of the entire field, then it's simple: isolate it using the Left() function and apply the style; then output the rest, using the Right() function. No substitution is required for this.

If it's something else, then it gets interesting.

Thank you Gopala and Comment,

Basically, I would like to style certain words or phrases in a text field.  I want to style whole words only. Selecting the phrase by adding delimiters (space, comma, dot, semicolon, apostrophe, etc) is simple and works fine. 

The problem is isolating single letter words followed by a colon, such as:

S:

O:

A:

P:

Because TextStyleAdd doesn't search for whole words, I end up with words ending in S:  O:  A:  P: also being styled (See attached file).

So, the script should do something like:

If there is a whole word, formed by a single letter (any of these four letters S, O, A or P), at the beginning of the field, followed by a colon, make it Bold

Hope this helps.

All the very best,

Daniel

 

[comment]

2 hours ago, Quito said:

If there is a whole word, formed by a single letter (any of these four letters S, O, A or P), at the beginning of the field, followed by a colon, make it Bold

Then how about =

Substitute ( "§" & Yourfield ;
[ "§S:" ; TextStyleAdd ( "S:" ; Bold ) ] ;
[ "§O:" ; TextStyleAdd ( "O:" ; Bold ) ] ;
[ "§A:" ; TextStyleAdd ( "A:" ; Bold ) ] ;
[ "§P:" ; TextStyleAdd ( "P:" ; Bold ) ] ;
[ "§" ; "" ]
)

You can use any character that you know is not going to be used in the field. I usually use Char ( 6320 ) which is an unassigned Unicode code point, but "§" is easier to use and to read.

[Quito]

That worked perfectly. Thank you!