Text Styles and New Style

[lackofwords]

I'm not sure why the drop shadow for the new style isn't taking priority over the default styling when applied to a selection of text.

Such as;

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init:
    $ style.default.drop_shadow = (1,1)
    $ style.default.color = "#fff"
    $ style.new = Style(style.default)
    $ style.new.italic = True
    $ style.new.drop_shadow = None
    $ style.new.color = "#000"

label start:
    "Hello, {=new}World.{/=new} Hi."

The entire text of "Hello, World. Hi." would have a 'drop shadow'. "Hello" and "Hi." text would be colored white, while "World." text is black and italic, but was unable to remove the 'drop shadow'.

Same thing goes for outline as well.

[PyTom]

The reason is drop_shadow and outlines can't be customized using a text tag like that. These tags require more than one layer to be drawn by the Text. Rather than try to deal with layer ordering, which can get weird if one part of the text has 2 layers and the other has 4, I made drop_shadow and outlines global to a block of text.