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From: jkc@Apple.COM (John Kevin Calhoun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Word wrap changes in HC 2.0
Message-ID: <46210@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 1 Nov 90 19:06:41 GMT
References: <2763@esquire.dpw.com>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
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In article <2763@esquire.dpw.com> baumgart@esquire.dpw.com (Steve Baumgarten)
writes:
>It seems that word wrap in text fields has been changed in version
>2.0.  In pre-2.0 text fields, text would wrap at a hyphen ("-")
>character.  This doesn't seem to happen with HC 2.0, at least not by
>default.
>
>Was this done on purpose and -- more to the point -- is there any way
>to restore the old behavior?

Word wrap in HyperCard 1.x is really very odd.  You might be familiar
with the way it leaves parentheses and quotation marks hanging at the
end of lines.  The good news is that all of that weird stuff is fixed in
HyperCard 2.0 -- we now use the standard word wrapping mechanism built
into TextEdit, which not only eliminates those old bugs but also gives
us the highest degree of compatibility across international versions of
the system software.  The bad news is that the word wrap mechanism used in
HyperCard 1.x has some advantages over TextEdits's, wrapping at hyphens
being one example, and those advantages are now lost.

HyperCard 2.0 still uses the old word wrapping mechanism for unconverted
1.x stacks.  After you convert them, we use the standard word wrapping
mechanism.

Kevin Calhoun
HyperCard Engineer
Apple Computer, Inc.