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From: bayes@hpislx.HP.COM (Scott Bayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Word wrap changes in HC 2.0
Message-ID: <9720002@hpislx.HP.COM>
Date: 5 Nov 90 22:06:59 GMT
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Organization: Measurement Systems Operation - Loveland, CO
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> 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

This is great!  I have an informational stack of some 300KB, and
inserting RETURN characters to get quotes to "stick" to their words was
getting old fast, esp when I wanted to resize a field.  Hyphen wrap is
nice, but I gladly give it up in favor of this.  Improper grouping of
punctuation seriously affects readability; hyphen wrap affects
aesthetics only (usually).

> 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.

Now if I could only get 2.0. The dealer insists I have to pay for it. Is
anyone out there able to (at least quasi-legally) send me a copy, or make
it available to FTP?

Scott Bayes
"I have my own Lion Tamer's Hat."