topic Re: Text Editor Formatting Options in Documentation

Text Editor Formatting Options

rob2218 — Fri, 19 May 2023 13:54:44 GMT

this is a disaster.........how can I make the "text box" formatting actually be a "box-typed" format?

Re: Text Editor Formatting Options

Barry Kelly — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 02:02:21 GMT

Not quite sure what you want.
You have chosen left and right justification which is what Archicad has done.
Everything is justified to the left and those lines of text with spaces have justified to the right as well.
The last two lines of text have no spaces so can't justify to the right.

If you are wanting the text equally stretched across the text box (i.e. between all characters and not just spaces between words) then this is not possible.

Barry.

Re: Text Editor Formatting Options

Barry Kelly — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 02:15:35 GMT

Just playing with this (in 19 at least) and it seems the very last line never justifies both left and right even if it is words with spaces.
Other lines will not justify both either if you use carriage returns.

Barry.

Re: Text Editor Formatting Options

David Maudlin — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 13:30:16 GMT

Rob:

Maybe a difference between Mac and PC. I get both between-word spacing and between-letter spacing when switching to Justified. You are getting only between-word spacing. In your example, the line "combustion gas" will get very hard to read if the between-letter spacing is implemented.

David

Re: Text Editor Formatting Options

Barry Kelly — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 01:39:28 GMT

David that is interesting about the letter spacing on Mac.
But I see the first line is not justified because of the carriage return and the last line is not justified either.
This seems like a bug to me as I can't think why these should not be justified the same as the rest of the text.

Barry.

Re: Text Editor Formatting Options

Stress Co_ — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 06:39:19 GMT

Sort of works for me (MacOS 10.9)

Adjusting the size of the label helps to fine tune.

Re: Text Editor Formatting Options

David Maudlin — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 13:45:38 GMT

Barry wrote:
But I see the first line is not justified because of the carriage return and the last line is not justified either.
This seems like a bug to me as I can't think why these should not be justified the same as the rest of the text.

The justification is only for full lines of text (no carriage return). This makes sense, for example, what if the last line was just the word "cut"? The "c" would be on the left, the "u" in the middle, and the "t" on the right, rendering the word unreadable. A word processing application, like Word, works the same way.

David

Re: Text Editor Formatting Options

Barry Kelly — Thu, 26 Nov 2015 01:59:35 GMT

David wrote:
what if the last line was just the word "cut"? The "c" would be on the left, the "u" in the middle, and the "t" on the right, rendering the word unreadable.

Understandable for a single word but what if there are multiple words.
Certainly on the last line in my example shouldn't that be justified - there is no carriage return there.

Barry.

Re: Text Editor Formatting Options

David Maudlin — Thu, 26 Nov 2015 13:11:30 GMT

Barry wrote:
Certainly on the last line in my example shouldn't that be justified - there is no carriage return there.

That is not the common solution for the last line, normally only full lines of text are justified. Look at any newspaper column, contract documents or how Microsoft Word handles justified text. In this Wiki article it states that "justify is equal to left justify" unless the application has other options, which is rare.

David