clc~ Right, in BBEdit there's no such thing as a "Soft Return," per se. In BBEdit, only the "Hard Return" exists, and that is done via the Return key. You use it when you want to force a line to end, and two consecutive Hard Returns delimit adjoining paragraphs by creating a blank line between paragraphs. Everything else either is wrapped, or not wrapped, depending on how you've set up things in BBEdit's Preferences.
BBEdit's "soft wrap" is handy. It lets you view your text as blocks of wrapped words without needing to insert a Hard Return to force text to a new line. In BBEdit 8.2.6, which is what I use, a soft wrap can be made to conform to a page guide, a window width, or a character width via Editor Defaults of BBEdit's Preferences. Happily, BBEdit remembers your Editor Default settings on a file-by- file basis, which means you can create files with differing wrap characteristics. You could create files that had no soft wrapping, files that wrap to an arbitrary page guide, files that wrap to a window width, and files that wrap to a character width you specify. The next time you open any of those files that were created using different wrap settings, BBEdit faithfully displays them according to your wrap/no-wrap specifications that were in effect when you created the file. For your purposes, you may want to work with BBEdit in soft wrap mode but then use the Text Options pop-up menu to turn off soft wrapping right before you save the file. That way you'll be able to quickly spot, and remove, any unwanted Hard Returns in your text before you re- import the text into InDesign. (However, you'll still have to tell InDesign where to insert Soft Returns in the imported text.) HTH! ~Semper Fi, Mac! = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = On Dec 05, 2008, at 12:46 AM, clc wrote: > > Hi all > > I work in layout and in my world there are two types of line-endings. > Soft returns and hard returns. > > Soft returns denotes a line break in InDesign and is done via 'Shift > +Return'. > Hard returns denotes a parapraph ending in InDesign and is done via > 'Return'. > > These differences in line-breaks lets InDesign apply a great deal of > stylesheets automagically for me. > > I was thinking of using BBEdit to clean up some scripts before pouring > them into InDesign for layout, but both BBEdit and Textwrangler > doesn't seem aware of the two different keypresses. > > Is there a way to set it so that these two keypresses are interpreted > differently? > > thanks. > > - clc > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a specific feature request or would like to report a suspected (or confirmed) problem with the software, please email to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" rather than posting to the group. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
