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From: HKR@PSUVM.BITNET (Ken Rosenberry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Question about Text fields
Message-ID: <63526HKR@PSUVM>
Date: 1 Dec 88 22:52:58 GMT
Organization: Penn State University - Center for Academic Computing
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I'm having trouble with HyperCard text fields.  Are there features of
the current release of HyperCard that I don't know about that would
solve my problems?  If not, will these issues be addressed in future
releases of HyperCard?  Here are the current limitations I have:

   1.  I am forced to use non-proportional fonts for tables since HC does
       not appear to support tabs in text fileds.  If I don't use a non-
       proportional font, text doesn't align correctly when printed on a
       LaserWriter.

   2.  Special characters (quotation marks, etc) at the beginning of a
       word do not wrap correctly.  My solution is to add a 'return'
       character before the word that begins with the special character.
       That's not only a real pain, but it makes for difficult editing.

   3.  Is there a built-in function that will count the number of LINES
       OF TEXT in a field rather than the number of RETURN characters?