Text editing best practices (with tags, etc.)
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Hi there,
I want to create a text field with some text, that is styled with tags. Think of MS Word, some ext is bold, some is a headline, etc. The tags that style the text are not visible to the user, he just sees the text in bold.
How do I preserve these tags? I mean when I backspace over the closing bold-tag, for example, how do I preserve that and prevent that the rest of the text is now bold until the end?
I guess this is a pretty basic question for experiences programmers. Are there any algorithms or best practices? This problem surely has been solved before, any pointers?
(If this is of any concern, I develop for the iPhone OS and the text field will be a UITextView, but my question is more general I guess.)
Thanks in advance!
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