Word Wrap - go pictorial!

2005-06-08 Thread Mathewson
I have just uploaded one, not particularly satisfactory solution to the Lexicall repository "PICTORIAL TEXT.rev". This is based in an idea from Jeanne deVotot in 2004 - it presents lovely, readable text that will remain the same across any platform (because it isn't text at all) - but, of course

Word Wrap . . . Bad News for Bulgarians & and other non-Roman script users

2005-06-08 Thread Mathewson
Sometimes I'm a bit slow . . . I made a quick little widget with a field containing some Bulgarian text and another containing Latin text. 2 little buttons: "dontWrap TRUE" and "dontWrap FALSE" scripted to turn dontWrap on and off for both fields. Worked beautifully for the Latins text and DID

Word Wrap . . .

2005-06-08 Thread Mathewson
Dear Brian Yennie, Yes, you are quite right re 'dontWrap'. maybe I was a bit unclear about what is happening: my Bulgarian text (dontWrap is false) just breaks as soon as it hits the right-hand side of the field so (and I will use an English word here as an example) we might have: fantaon

Re: Word Wrap, crossed-eyes, and so forth with text-fields

2005-06-07 Thread Brian Yennie
Richmond, I believe the property is actually "dontWrap", and is FALSE by default. What text do you see getting broken inside words? I've never seen this behavior, wrapping works fine here... - Brian I suppose I am trying to reinvent the wheel (my problem is that my wheels are square), but .

Word Wrap, crossed-eyes, and so forth with text-fields

2005-06-07 Thread Mathewson
I suppose I am trying to reinvent the wheel (my problem is that my wheels are square), but . . . If I set wordWrap to true words get chopped in half & if I set wordWrap to false one has to scroll laterally and vertically, and the whole thing is unusable. I would like (as, I suspect, would q