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From: lim@iris.ucdavis.edu (Lloyd Lim)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: PICT TextBegin comment
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Date: 20 Jul 89 19:12:32 GMT
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Reply-To: lim@iris.ucdavis.edu (Lloyd Lim)
Organization: U.C. Davis - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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OK, I narrowed my problem down to something I know someone can answer.

The TextBegin PICT comment contains a record of type TTxtPicRec.  One of the
fields, tJus, specifies the justification of the text.  The values it takes
are "0, 1, 2, 3, 4 or greater => none, left, center, right, full
justification."  But if you use 2 for center and paste it into MacDraw 1.9.5,
you get a command symbol next to the Center menu item instead of a checkmark.
Using ResEdit, I found that MacDraw actually uses a 6 for center.  I tried
this and it works.  Are these higher constants documented somewhere?

MacDraw also uses 2 for single spacing when my old tech note says to use
1.  Other programs accept both 2 or 6 and 1 or 2 so it must be documented
somewhere.  Could someone explain this?

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