Determining exact location within a field

[Dar Scott]

On Thursday, February 26, 2004, at 01:40 PM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote:

> If the problem here is the text color change and underlining of linked 
> text - you know you can turn those off, right?
>
> set the underlineLinks to false
> set the linkColor to "black"
> set the linkHiliteColor to "black"
> set the linkVisitedColor to "black"

Thanks!  In my particular case, I am also using links as links.

One use is to float objects to the left of the specified text even in 
changing OS's and available fonts.  That is, to the left of the field 
and even, up and down, with the specified text.

I am considering finding highly-portable fonts, imaging text, and 
implementing some sort of styles to address some other problems and 
that might solve or mitigate this.  I'm also thinking of using 0-width 
characters as markers and naming them by keeping a list of names.  I 
don't know yet what to use as the marker.  I could also maintain the 
character position (or range), but that would mean processing every 
character in editing.

Dar Scott