Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!ub!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!rochester!kodak!atexnet!dawson From: dawson@epps.kodak.com (Keith Dawson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: Apollo Word Wrap Message-ID: <5063@atexnet.UUCP> Date: 21 Nov 90 15:47:42 GMT References: <1990Nov20.212949.10429@quintro.uucp> Sender: news@atexnet.UUCP Organization: EPPS (A Kodak Company), Billerica, MA Lines: 61 DM wordwrap was implemented in SR9.7 at the request of a large cus- tomer. It still exists, and still works as well as it ever did, at SR10.3. Documentation was drafted (see below). It only works on fixed- width fonts; tabs aren't handled correctly. At the time SR9.7 released it was decided not to document wordwrap, but to give the feature as-is to the customer who requested it. There are several other useful, mostly functional, undocumented DM fea- tures (for instance, automatically line-numbered read and edit pads). Around the time I left Apollo (May 1990) there was talk in Marketing of informally documenting them somehow for customers. Don't know if this ever happened. Here's the draft manpage on wordwrap: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 9.7;ww (word_wrap) *DM*, revision 9.0, 87/08/26 WW (WORD_WRAP) -- perform word wrap operations. usage: ww [-c nnn] [-a] [-i] FORMAT WW [options] WW is a toggle command that puts a DM edit window in word-wrap mode. Existing lines wrap when a user types in them. Word wrap does not affect cut and paste operations. When word wrap is on, a "W" is visible in the mode field of the edit window's banner. WW only works for fixed-width fonts. ARGUMENTS ww -c nnn Sets the character column at which word wrap will occur. The character column is calculated based on the pixel width of the current font in the window. Default column, when word wrap is on, is the right edge of the window. ww -a Given a range of text and a word wrap column which has been previously set, the -a option instructs the Display Manager to wrap all lines in the range. Word wrap does not understand a rectangular range. ww -i Displays the current word wrap column. ------------------------------------------------------ Keith Dawson dawson@epps.kodak.com Atex Advanced Publishing Systems 165 Lexington Rd. (400/165L) 508-670-4025 Billerica, MA 01821 fax 508-670-4033 ------------------------------------------------------ -- ------------------------------------------------------ Keith Dawson dawson@epps.kodak.com Atex Advanced Publishing Systems 165 Lexington Rd. (400/165L) 508-670-4025