-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi Rick,
On 08 February 2002 at 11:31:39 -0500 (which was 16:31 where I live) 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. You need two new lines. Since this is plain text, the only way to delimit two distinct paragraphs is by have a clear, blank line between 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? Because a single new line doesn't denote a new pargraph. Sometimes I want to type a bullet list so I have to turn Auto-Format off. There's a control key combo for that - it's simple enough to remember - Ctrl-Shift-F. o Typing paragraph data? Turn it on. o Typing lists? Turn it off. o Amending a paragraph? Turn it on. > If I simply have The Bat! options configured wrong someone please > let me know. Thanks Lots. It's not that you have it configured wrong - just that you are expecting too much of a plain text format. Plain text only has hard returns, no soft returns. Auto format is about moving the hard returns around so that the text better fits the given margins. Where should it stop moving hard returns? When it gets to a paragraph break. What does one of those look like? A completely blank line. It is logical, but not intuitive thanks to expectations brought about by editors which handle soft returns. It has been suggested in the past that the TB programmers implement some system of soft returns. I've always felt that to be dangerous. At least with the present system, what we type is what will be sent. No behind-the-scenes formatting for us TB users - oh no! ;-). FWIW, the TB editor *does* follow a standard. It's a very old one. It's based on the old MS-DOS SideKick editor, which itself drew from the old WordStar standard. These standards are still in use in most Borland IDE editors (with tweaks and additions). - -- Cheers -- .\\arck D. Pearlstone -- List moderator ___________________________________________________________________ \ BrainStorm - let the thoughts flow http://www.brainstormsw.com / \ PGP Key ID: 0x929DCDA0 | www: http://www.silverstones.com / · TB! v1.54 Beta/37-14F4B4B2 on Windows 2000 5.0.2195 Service Pack 2 · -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (MingW32) iD8DBQE8ZAhEOeQkq5KdzaARAgNXAKClg/mDCklvH0XscYQ05bEtEbEoagCfS8wR 9kVvCgbS2JWOi7qgXCeP0wk= =FZnJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ________________________________________________________ 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
