Hi Rich, On Saturday, November 08, 2003, at 4:47:24 PM PST, you wrote:
> I set mine to 70 in an effort to make sure it is not too > uncomfortable to read. Funny, if that is too short for convention > then why are my line too long to read? They look fine now. > It seems the other way around here! MicroEd goes off the edge of the > screen, Windows compatible is "comfortable"! How large/small is the size you have your composition window set at? If it's at least a few characters greater than your line wrap setting (and providing that you use the recommended "auto-wrap" option in the MicroED editor), then you'll see your text wrap as you type. It will look to your recipients just as it looks to you as you compose. > I will try here to use MicroEd (and ALT-L) as a test but the editing > keys seem not to follow convention. As Allie mentioned...you only need to use "Alt-L" if you want to re-format a paragraph to your wrap setting. Here's an example of Alt+L's usefulness. I've copied and pasted here a paragraph of Allie's that you quoted in your message...exactly as it appeared in your message. You did not use "Alt-L" on the paragraph to re-format it, and so there was some funky wrapping: AM> If I were to set this window to an optimum width for AM> reading unwrapped text like yours, then I'd end up not being able to see AM> all columns in the message list above your text. AM> As a result of this, your text lines appear uncomfortably long to read AM> as they wrap to the other edge of the screen. AM> It's best to AM> wrap your text and the optimum wrapping point is at 72 to 76 characters. Now, I will again copy/paste here the same paragraph, place my cursor somewhere within the paragraph, and hit "Alt-L": AM> If I were to set this window to an optimum width for reading AM> unwrapped text like yours, then I'd end up not being able to see AM> all columns in the message list above your text. As a result of AM> this, your text lines appear uncomfortably long to read as they AM> wrap to the other edge of the screen. It's best to wrap your text AM> and the optimum wrapping point is at 72 to 76 characters. Now isn't that nice? :-) Another option you have, in addition to "auto-wrap" (under the "Utilities" menu in your text editor), is "auto-format". Auto-format can be very useful if you want your paragraphs to be dynamically re-formatted even if you're inserting extra text into a paragraph that has already been composed. If you use this option, you don't need Alt-L to re-format the text as you would if you had used only "auto-wrap", then added more text in an already composed paragraph. However, if you ever want to make a "list" of items (often with each line being shorter than your line wrap setting), one after the other with no blank spaces between the lines, you can toggle on/off "auto-format" with "Shift+Ctrl+F" ...unless some other application uses the shortcut, and in that case, you can edit the default shortcut to something else (edit shortcuts in "View/Edit Shortcuts" or get there by using "Alt-F12"). -- Melissa PGP public keys: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]&Body=Please%20send%20keys TB! v2.01.3 on Windows XP 5.1.2600 Service Pack 1
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