HTML muddle

[Richmond]

On 18/02/15 21:26, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> On 2/18/2015 3:32 AM, Graham Samuel wrote:
>> This text is static in my standalone, but I have often needed to
>> change it during development. I have not found a simple way to do
>> this, and I have now resorted to having a ‘plain text’ field
>> (‘myText’) with the whole html of the target field in it, and at
>> initialisation time I execute:
>>
>> set the htmlText of fld “myFormattedText” to fld “myText”
>
> I'm confused. Why can't you just edit the text and its formatting in 
> situ?

As far as I can see the problem that Graham has is that editing the text 
in situ is that
it is not WYSIWYG.

Richmond.