Hi Jim
Unfortunately you have run into a common and tricky problem, I would advise designing with some tolerances in mind and perhaps using the default fonts.
I think the most important thing is to decide whether you want to make your controls larger, where you need to, to fit the text, or make the text smaller to fit in your controls. In both cases you will either need to do some coding or test your app on the platforms you are interested in building for to find values that work cross platform.
It may be that you can just set the font size depending on the platform and that will be enough
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on preOpenCard
switch the platform
case "Win32"
set the textSize of me to 14
break
case "MacOS"
set the textSize of me to 12
break
case "Linux"
set the textSize of me to 16
break
case "iphone"
set the textSize of me to 14
break
case "android"
set the textSize of me to 10`
break
end preOpenCard
Regarding the missing "Fit content" button, this is a known issue and has been reported as a bug here
http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17618
You can add yourself to the CC list if you want to get updates when the status of the bug changes.
As far as properties in the Property Inspector go there isn't a list anywhere, but you can find all the properties in the Dictionary by using the filter in the left pane, and selecting the "property" type. The Dictionary entries explain each property in more detail.
As for the ABC videos some are me and some are Georgia, Georgia is English and I am Scottish, if you can tell which is which
I hope that helps.
Kind regards
Elanor