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Indeed, all you need is ASCII 11 and no overlays or anything else.

Why do quite a few things that might have been expected to be fundamental to LiveCode come down to awkward kludges or work-arounds?

I am naturally lazy, so I always look for the simplest and easiest way to do things: of course these ways are not always the best.

Of course you could use both methods in different situations.

Well, I am leaning my way only because it takes less work.

Display it where?

Looks all a bit decontextualised really.

A bit more explanation might make things easier.

A simpler way to put borders round whatever text you want works like this: - SShot 2024-04-15 at 12.08.15.png - on mouseUp put the selectedText into SELEX replace cr with numToNativeChar(11) in SELEX delete the selectedText put SELEX after the selectedText set the borderwidth of the selectedText to ...

on mouseUp put paragraph 2 to 3 of fld "f1" into PARAS1 delete paragraph 2 to 3 of fld "f1" replace cr with numToNativeChar(11) in PARAS1 put cr & PARAS1 & cr after paragraph 1 of fld "f1" set the borderwidth of paragraph 2 of fld "f1" to 4 set the bordercolor of paragraph 2 of fld "f1" to "purple"...

One of the things that interests me as an English teacher is what, in LiveCode constitutes a paragraph. In English a paragraph can be represented in 2 distinct ways: 1. Each new paragraph is represented by a carriage return and an indentation (Tab key). 2 Each new paragraph is represented by a doubl...

But we have to replace all CRs typed/pasted by users, and it add complexity.

Doesn't that mean that your border will go round all the text, not just the paragraphs you want?

Are you wedded to using the border-whatevers?

Personally, after Zak's OP, I am not 'wedded', but I am 'in a relationship', as it does seem a good thing, if it is at all possible.

Yup: vertical tabulation. Hex B.

Then, as I demonstrated above, NO paragraphs are understood at all.

I tried lines and it is seemingly NOT possible to put a border round selected lines. It is, however, possible to set the backGroundColor to a set of selected lines. You can do this: - SShot 2024-04-12 at 15.28.58.png - on mouseUp set the backGroundColor of paragraph 2 to 5 of field "ff" to "green" e...

Sacre m . . . : I even tried this:
and got exactly the same thing.