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- Addendum to Part 2
-
-
- In Part 2 of the article, Words06, I looked at the effect of adding
- text during editing of multi-column text and we saw that there was a
- problem with wrapping. In addition, in Part 1, I pointed out the
- problem with wrap back on delete in column layouts. Problems can also
- arise in simple text layouts if a line of text is entered in the line
- immediately above an existing line.
-
- These problems arise because PipeDream uses the blank line as a
- demarcation between paragraphs,and if the blank line is missing
- PipeDream assumes that the two lines should be part of the same
- paragraph. Thus, wrap back will occur from the line immediately below
- on deletion in the row if there is no blank line following. In
- addition since PipeDream does not wrap spaces, if wrap occurs from an
- added line, and there is no separating blank line, then the text
- already in a following line will be displaced to the right by the
- wrapped word and will continue to do so as more text is added. This
- will occur in spite of the fact that the Options settings are:- Insert
- on Wrap is set to Row, Wrap is On, Insert on Return is ON and the
- Insert mode is in use, ie. the normal simple word processing set of
- options.
-
- If you think about it, this is logical with the Insert mode selected
- and with the blank line forming the separator for paragraphs. As was
- seen in the earlier examples, the command "Left align" can be used to
- control the situation.
-
- I thought that it would be worthwhile having a recap and explaining
- this in an addendum as it can cause some confusion in simple word
- processing.
-