I think you're getting word wrapping confused with reformatting. The word wrapping option just changes how the file is displayed; the file is not changed at all.
I'll call the lines generated by word-wrapping "soft" and lines generated by a real linebreak character "hard" [that's you pressing the return key]. A text file just contains text, there is no formatting options like alignment inside it - formatting is simulated by inserting spaces at the right places. Reformatting text; i.e. aligning and justifying, doesn't make any sense with soft-wrapped text. None at all. You *could* "right-align" text for a certain width without inserting hard breaks, but as soon as the display width changed it would look totally messed-up. This is why PSPad, and every other plain text editor under the sun, does not support this option. nacho: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - If I have a short line in a text file, Format menu does not allow centering nor right-aligning. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Works for me. Turn off wordwrap, select line, select menu item "Format / Block Format / Justify Right" nacho: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - If I have a long line and word-wrapping is enabled, I can "justify" it: it splits into several lines and is filled with blanks where necessary, but i cannot left-align (simple split) nor center it (options are "greyed"). - Same situation, but word-wrapping disabled: options are not greyed in the menu, but still I can only justify. Center and left-align do not work. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For both of these, remember the formatting options only work on hard-wrapped text. The "block align" option inserts hard wraps for you, the others don't. That's why it doesn't work. To do this, you have to _first_ go from soft-wrapped to hard-wrapped text : select the long-line text, and select "Format / Block Format / Reformat". This will split up the long line into short lines by inserting hard breaks. Once that's done, you can use the other formatting options like left-right-centre. nacho: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So... I would like to split a long line into several smaller lines, conserving indentation, as old QEdit for MsDos did, but right now I have to do it manually: reduce right margin, justify, remove extra spaces, indent using TAB... :-( -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There's no way to do this while conserving indentation, sorry. Maybe Jan will add this in a future version. It should be quite easy to script though. Actually, to script it you'd have to use the reformat action or manually input the column width - there's no way to get that information inside a script. -- <http://forum.pspad.com/read.php?2,43959,43960> PSPad freeware editor http://www.pspad.com
