Styled Text
Styled Text is a string that
can but does not have to contain font and style information.
Styled Text has all of the elements and properties
of a string. In fact, the class
of styled Text is string. This
data type also has a length property, which
returns the number of characters in the string.
Styled Text strings have
character, paragraph,
text, and word properties. Some
word-processing applications, such as AppleWorks, return the
styled-text value when you get the text from a document.
The various font and style characteristics of Styled Text are incorporated into the string,
but you cannot change them with built-in AppleScript code (as in
set
font of styledTextVar...).
In addition, you can coerce strings back and forth between
Styled Text and string. But a
literal string (“I am a
string”) that is coerced to Styled Text does not actually have any style or font information;
it is just plain text.