Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!gatech!bloom-beacon!apple!dan
From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Question about Text fields
Message-ID: <21550@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 2 Dec 88 17:52:10 GMT
References: <63526HKR@PSUVM>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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More answers... 

Fields cannot have tabs in them.  In order to do tables in a field you
need to use a non-proportional font, such as Monaco or Courier.  This
may not be fixed for a while.

Special characters such as quotes DO mess up word wrap.  This problem
WILL be fixed in the next major release of HyperCard (post 1.2.2).

There is currently no built-in function that counts lines in a text
field according to how they are displayed.  Rather, lines are counted by
the number of return characters in the field.  However, you can
calculate the effective number of lines in a field by looking at the
coordinates of the field and dividing the height by the textHeight of
each line of the field.  We hope to improve this in future versions.

Many other improvements are also being worked on for fields.

Dan Allen
Apple