How can I reference only a portion of a TextArea's htmlText block?

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Published on 2010-01-06T19:25:20Z Indexed on 2010/04/22 8:03 UTC
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I have a number of very poor-quality pdf documents that look like 80's photocopies, which I'm rebuilding in Flash (Flex Builder 3 MXML application), representing paragraphs of text in TextAreas so that selected portions can be bold or italic, or whatever I need. I need a way to apply toolTips or event listeners to individual words within the block of text to link those words to a glossary. I'm perfectly happy to create a definition panel that is populated and made visible with a mouseOver, but don't know how to do it to just a portion of the text.

Is there a good / clean / easy way to do this?

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