Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!psuvax1!psuvm.bitnet!hkr 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 Lines: 16 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?