[JW Lua] FCFileInfoText and ... more info

[Jari Williamsson]

Jagn,

This is an issue in recent versions of Finale, where it started to add 
font info to those fields. I've chosen to not filter that data, but to 
leave it as it's retrieved by Finale.


Best regards,

Jari Williamsson


On 2015-03-26 15:52, Jan Angermüller wrote:
> Jari,
>
> just as I assumed in my first email, FCFileInfoText must not add the
> Enigma font tags to the string.
> This short code snippet shows what happens if you have a text block that
> includes the title tag:
>
>      local fileinfo=finale.FCFileInfoText()
>      fileinfo:LoadTitle()
>      fileinfo:SaveAsTitle()
>
> Although nothing is actually changed - it's only resaved -, the text
> block displays the Enigma tags on the score (!) after running the
> script. See screenshot from the score view.
>
> All the best,
> Jan
>
> Am 20.03.2015 um 13:03 schrieb Jan Angermüller:
>> Jari,
>>
>> when I create the strings from FCFileInfoText, for example
>> LoadTitle(), I get a string like
>>
>> ^font(Times New Roman,4096)^size(12)^nfx(0)Song Title
>>
>> Are you sure that this is what Finale produces internally from the
>> ^title() tag ?
>> Because this would mean that Finale uses the default text font / font
>> size which in this case is Times/12.
>>
>> For example, if I create the text string of a large score title in
>> font size *24 with *FCPageText:CreateTextString() I get:
>>
>> ^font(Times New Roman,4096)^size(*24*)^nfx(0)^title()
>>
>> If I substitute the ^title() with what FCFileInfoText():LoadTitle()
>> produces, it would lead to:
>>
>> ^font(Times New Roman,4096)^size(*24*)^nfx(0)^font(Times New
>> Roman,4096)^size(*12*)^nfx(0)Song Title
>>
>> which would print as a title in font size *12*.
>> Could it be that the font information is not necessary in the
>> FCFileInfoText strings,
>> I.e. that LoadTitle() should only return a string "Song Title" with no
>> Enigma tags ?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Jan
>>
>>
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