Subject: RE: Looking for problem confirmation
From: Thomas Fletcher (thomasf@qnx.com)
Date: Fri Jan 05 2001 - 21:23:17 CST
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Bruce Pearson wrote:
> This is by design.
> For word wrapping with various justifications it is important that spaces do
> not get wrapped to the beginning of the line. When breaking a line we look
> for the first non space character that is passed the end of the line and
> then break at this point.
It may be by design, but it is also wrong for certain cases. Once
we pass a boundary then we need to wrap. I refuse to accept that
this is correct behaviour. If you think it is, then please explain
it to me and tll me why no other word processor has this feature =;-)
Thomas
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-abiword-dev@abisource.com
> [mailto:owner-abiword-dev@abisource.com]On Behalf Of Thomas Fletcher
> Sent: Saturday, 6 January 2001 3:16 AM
> To: Thomas Briggs
> Cc: abi dev
> Subject: Re: Looking for problem confirmation
>
>
> On Fri, 5 Jan 2001, Thomas Briggs wrote:
>
> >
> > > Can anyone help my confirm/deny a problem on another
> > > platform other than QNX.
> > >
> > > - Start AbiWord with a blank document
> > > - Hold down the spacebar
> > > - Watch the cursor go all the way to the right
> > > side of the page ... and then continue off the
> > > page into the "greyed" area.
> >
> > I think I can confirm this on Win32. I say "I think" because it
> depends
> > on what you mean by "continue off the page into the "grayed" area. When
> > following the steps described above, the cursor disappears when it gets to
> > the right-hand edge of the doc. I get flashes of white in the grayed area
> > if I continue to hold down the space bar.
> > I think the important thing here is that the cursor doesn't wrap around
> > to the next line, like you'd expect it to, until you hit a non-space key.
>
> Thanks everybody. I'll try and take a look to see what
> is happening to make the space "delimiter" such a special
> character that it doesn't wrap when other characters do.
>
> Thomas
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> Thomas (toe-mah) Fletcher QNX Software Systems
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