Thanks, Charlie, but I'm already soft-wrapping to window width. I'm
looking for the effect that text editors like Writeoom offer, which
means having the entire screen covered by the text editor window, but
text constrained to a 600-700 pixel column in the middle of the
screen.

On Sep 15, 12:49 pm, Charlie Garrison <[email protected]> wrote:
> Good afternoon,
>
> On 14/09/11 at 6:44 PM -0700, amc <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >I tend to use BBEdit for writing. Lion's full screen view is perfect
> >for this, except that BBEdit's text wanders right across my 20"
> >screen, making it very difficult to read as a writer. Using the
> >existing text width settings don't work, either, because text gets
> >squashed over to the left.
>
> You don't mention Soft Wrap so I'm guessing you missed that.
> Turn on Soft Wrap and set the wrap settings to window width.
>
> >Any chance that we could get preferences to centre text when in full
> >screen, and a slider to constrain text width to suit personal taste?
>
> If you really want to request that as a feature you need to send
> to <[email protected]>. Personally I don't see that as a
> solution to your problem though; you want to configure soft wrap
> for your needs.
>
> >If you have a feature request or would like to report a
> >problem, please email "[email protected]" rather than
> >posting to the group.
>
> Charlie
>
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