Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!brunix!eilat!man From: man@eilat.cs.brown.edu (Mark H. Nodine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: What is th Soft Carriage Return Character Message-ID: <48324@brunix.UUCP> Date: 27 Aug 90 15:45:53 GMT References: <1990Aug25.203825.24383@ccu.umanitoba.ca> Sender: news@brunix.UUCP Reply-To: man@eilat.cs.brown.edu (Mark H. Nodine) Distribution: na Organization: Brown Computer Science Dept. Lines: 14 In article <1990Aug25.203825.24383@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, Sharkey@ccu.umanitoba.ca writes: |>I'm feeding a card field to my xfcn from HyperCard 1.2.5. |>And I'm having some difficulty figuring out what character is being used |>to signify a soft carriage return in those lines in the field which are |>longer than the width of the card. The hard return is the carriage return |>character '/r', |>Anyone Know what the soft return character is? There is no soft return character. As far as HC is concerned, all the text between hard returns is on the same line, though it will wrap to the next apparent line if it's too long. -Mark