Undocumented richtext chunk called "hidden"

I was looking over the undocumented DXL functions and noticed there was a rich text chunk called "hidden". You can get a return value of "false" by running this code:

RichText rt
string s = "\\b bold\\b0"

for rt in s do {
print rt.hidden
}

Question I have is: what do I have to do in string s to return a 'true' value? I looked over the RTF spec and the tag "\\v" is used to denote hidden text, but the loop ignores it.

Thoughts?
SystemAdmin - Fri Jan 21 09:37:32 EST 2011

Re: Undocumented richtext chunk called "hidden"
llandale - Fri Jan 21 15:07:17 EST 2011

Yes, RichTextFormat seems to use "v" as the tag for hidden text, and yes that "rt.hidden" perm returns false.

I guess the documentation is correct when it says that hidden text isn't supported. I notice WordPad doesn't support it either.

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