Please add a way to format (color, bold, fontsize, …) individual words/letters.
Being able to use two different fonts in one text would be nice too, but for now not essential.
Maybe this should work via a simple HTML-like markup, which basically would control the parameters of the text DAT “locally”, i.e. when the TOP cooks, it will set it’s parameters to different values depending on the markup defined for the “current string”.
Along goes the RFE for a multi-line Field COMP, so we can create a little interactive editor to set these markups.
I’m also keen to see some better ways to present text in touch.
on a big-picture level, maybe it could be part of some larger vector-graphics set-up. right now touch is dealing with stuff on a pixel level, like real-time photoshop on acid. it would be great to be able to draw a spline curve in TOPs, controlled by a CHOP or a DAT. I figure that text could be worked into that somehow. dreaming?
in general though, I think it’s urgent to get text display better since we now have lots of ability to bring text in from the web and other sources.