[fonc] Specification of Word Wrap and a Text Editor

2010-05-15 Thread Ted Kaehler
Folks, I have released a live system that contains the active essay Text Field Spec for LObjects. The active essay tells about a compact way to specify word wrap of text and a reasonably complete text editor. You can now download a Squeak image and changes file from: http://tinl

Re: [fonc] Specification of Word Wrap and a Text Editor

2010-05-15 Thread Mayson Lancaster
Should that URL perhaps be: http://tinlizzie.org/lesserphic2/"Text Field for LObject.zip" On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 5:25 PM, Ted Kaehler wrote: > Folks, >I have released a live system that contains the active essay Text > Field Spec for LObjects. The active essay tells about a compac

Re: [fonc] Specification of Word Wrap and a Text Editor

2010-05-15 Thread Kevin Driedger
Thanks Ted for giving us the code. I would love to spend days investigating the nuances of this system. I pasted the link into Chrome and it automatically converted the link to the following: http://tinlizzie.org/lesserphic2/Text%20Field%20for%20LObject.zip The link with the quotes doesn't work

Re: [fonc] Specification of Word Wrap and a Text Editor

2010-05-16 Thread Nikolay Suslov
This is awesome! Best regards, Nikolay On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 4:25 AM, Ted Kaehler wrote: > Folks, >I have released a live system that contains the active essay Text > Field Spec for LObjects. The active essay tells about a compact way to > specify word wrap of text and a reasonably c

Re: [fonc] Specification of Word Wrap and a Text Editor

2010-05-16 Thread DeNigris Sean
On May 15, 2010, at 8:25 PM, Ted Kaehler wrote: > I have released a live system that contains the active essay Text Field > Spec for LObjects. The active essay tells about a compact way to specify > word wrap of text and a reasonably complete text editor. This is super-cool and definitely

Re: [fonc] Specification of Word Wrap and a Text Editor

2010-05-17 Thread karl ramberg
Very nice indeed. Plenty of stuff to look at here :-) Karl On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 4:19 PM, DeNigris Sean wrote: > On May 15, 2010, at 8:25 PM, Ted Kaehler wrote: > > I have released a live system that contains the active essay Text > Field Spec for LObjects. The active essay tells about

Re: [fonc] Specification of Word Wrap and a Text Editor

2010-05-18 Thread Wolfgang Eder
dear all, just an idea: if being part of the selection is a property of each individual character, this should simplify things. plus, it would be possible to have non-contiguous selections. just my 2c really, thanks, wolfgang On 18.05.2010 07:56, Ted Kaehler wrote: Folks, Here is a way you can h

Re: [fonc] Specification of Word Wrap and a Text Editor

2010-05-18 Thread Alan Kay
, 2010 12:20:17 AM Subject: Re: [fonc] Specification of Word Wrap and a Text Editor dear all, just an idea: if being part of the selection is a property of each individual character, this should simplify things. plus, it would be possible to have non-contiguous selections. just my 2c really, thanks

Re: [fonc] Specification of Word Wrap and a Text Editor

2010-05-18 Thread Ted Kaehler
Ken, Thank you for your great enthusiasm! Yes, the challange of simplification is fascinating. --Ted. -- Ted Kaehler Viewpoints Research Institute http://www.vpri.org/html/team_bios/kaehler.html ___ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http:

Re: [fonc] Specification of Word Wrap and a Text Editor

2010-05-20 Thread Monty Zukowski
Lout ( http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/lout/index.php?title=Main_Page ) has a very interesting design for text layout. It is in fact a DSL for page layout, and a quirky but powerful one at that. Even so he has a good discussion of handling regions of text and larger structures such as pages