Re: How Can I Make A String Variable With Styled Text?
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- From: David Reiss <dbreiss at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 23:26:37 -0500 (EST)
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One should be able to do this with the function Interpretation;
however, Interpretation does not seem to work properly with strings.
I "interpret" that as a bug...
Thus, I believe that one should be able to define
temp = Interpretation[
Row[{Style["This is boldface.", Bold], " The rest is not."}],
"This is boldface. The rest is not."]
and then be able to execute some thing like,
Characters[temp]
and get the list of characters in the string. This, however, does not
work.
--David
On Nov 24, 2:31 am, Gregory Lypny <gregory.ly... at videotron.ca> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have a string variable
>
> myString = "This is boldface. The rest is not."
>
> When I execute myString, I want the first sentence to appear in bold type. Selecting the sentence and formatting it as bold when I create the string does not work. StringForm will do the trick, as in
>
> myString = StringForm["`` The rest is not.", Style["This is boldface", Bold]]
>
> but, of course, the Head of myString will no longer be String. Is there any other way to do this?
>
> Gregory