Thanks Marck, your explanations are really helping me better understand this ( even though I'm not totally getting the whole line return thing, but that's just my ignorance, I'll work on understanding it better ).
Totally not related to the topic, but Marck, did you modify your reply template to have it set up to automatically generate it like: >> reply text here That is really cool, and I like it much better than how I was doing it where I would simply indent my response under the blocks of reply text. Your way looks much more clear. Also, stupid question I'm sure but when you made that bulleted list you simply used the letter "o" for the bullets and than spaced over for each bulleted point. My question I guess is being just a text editor there is no special formatting for creating bulleted lists is there? Thanks again. ORIGINAL THREAD BELOW: On Friday, February 08, 2002, 12:17:55 PM, Marck wrote: MDP> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 MDP> Hi Rick, MDP> On 08 February 2002 at 11:31:39 -0500 (which was 16:31 where I live) MDP> Rick Reumann wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Secnario II - Auto-Format On. >> Well now when I go back and add text things wrap fine, so >> everything is great until I hit return/enter and it doesn't >> bring me to a new line. MDP> You need two new lines. Since this is plain text, the only way to MDP> delimit two distinct paragraphs is by have a clear, blank line between MDP> them. >> The bottom line is why is there a not an option so that I can >> type text have it wrap, be able to insert text and not have to >> use Alt-L to reformat, and be able to hit enter to generate a >> new line? MDP> Because a single new line doesn't denote a new pargraph. Sometimes I MDP> want to type a bullet list so I have to turn Auto-Format off. There's MDP> a control key combo for that - it's simple enough to remember - MDP> Ctrl-Shift-F. MDP> o Typing paragraph data? Turn it on. MDP> o Typing lists? Turn it off. MDP> o Amending a paragraph? Turn it on. >> If I simply have The Bat! options configured wrong someone please >> let me know. Thanks Lots. MDP> It's not that you have it configured wrong - just that you are MDP> expecting too much of a plain text format. Plain text only has hard MDP> returns, no soft returns. Auto format is about moving the hard returns MDP> around so that the text better fits the given margins. Where should it MDP> stop moving hard returns? When it gets to a paragraph break. What does MDP> one of those look like? A completely blank line. It is logical, but MDP> not intuitive thanks to expectations brought about by editors which MDP> handle soft returns. MDP> It has been suggested in the past that the TB programmers implement MDP> some system of soft returns. I've always felt that to be dangerous. At MDP> least with the present system, what we type is what will be sent. No MDP> behind-the-scenes formatting for us TB users - oh no! ;-). MDP> FWIW, the TB editor *does* follow a standard. It's a very old one. MDP> It's based on the old MS-DOS SideKick editor, which itself drew from MDP> the old WordStar standard. These standards are still in use in most MDP> Borland IDE editors (with tweaks and additions). -- Rick mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "Why do people in ship mutinies always ask for 'better treatment'? I'd ask for a pinball machine, because with all that rocking back and forth you'd probably be able to get a lot of free games." -Jack Handey -- ________________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
