using text inside a begin/endRecord() block, having set the textFont() only
in setup(), will throw an error about the textFont() not being set.

so textFont() is null on beginRecord.. same would be the case for
strokeWeight, background, etc.

opting not to fix this for now, because it opens up too many potential
minor glitches... what settings are inherited? and how can it be done
consistently across renderers, especially when the settings often involve a
method (i.e. setting fonts, that sometimes picks up the native font,
sometimes not) that does additional computation.

simpler to simply tell people that beginRecord() is quite literal.