On Sun, 12 Jun 2022 08:59:25 +0200, "R.Wieser" <address@not.available>
wrote:

>While thinking about wordpad and how it can display RTF documents I realized
>that there just might be a way to store the above setting in the documents
>themselves.
>
>So, my question : does know if such thing exists for either or both notepad
>and wordpad ?

I don't know about WordPad, but in most editors I've used, both plain
text and RTF, they do wordwrap, and if you don't want it you press
the Enter key and it puts in a CR/LF character.

--
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Steve,

>>So, my question : does know if such thing exists for either or both
>>notepad and wordpad ?
>
> I don't know about WordPad, but in most editors I've used, both
> plain text and RTF, they do wordwrap, and if you don't want it
> you press the Enter key and it puts in a CR/LF character.

So do note- and wordpad.

But that means I have to go over all of the text, inserting those /by hand/
everywhere they are needed.

It also means that that width is fixed, and can't be easily adjusted
depending on the situation (by changing the width of the editors window).

It would also need to be done for every new document that gets generated or
I download which uses such one-line paragraphs.

IOW, wordwrap is handy to have. Just not for /all/ the documents. :-)

Regards,
Rudy Wieser

On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 10:50:14 +0200, "R.Wieser" <address@not.available>
wrote:

>Steve,
>
>>>So, my question : does know if such thing exists for either or both
>>>notepad and wordpad ?
>>
>> I don't know about WordPad, but in most editors I've used, both
>> plain text and RTF, they do wordwrap, and if you don't want it
>> you press the Enter key and it puts in a CR/LF character.
>
>So do note- and wordpad.
>
>But that means I have to go over all of the text, inserting those /by hand/
>everywhere they are needed.
>
>It also means that that width is fixed, and can't be easily adjusted
>depending on the situation (by changing the width of the editors window).
>
>It would also need to be done for every new document that gets generated or
>I download which uses such one-line paragraphs.

For that I use XyWrite, an ancient word processor that still processes
words better than the latest ones -- though it lacks the bells and
whistles, it has more pistons and cylinders, and used to fit on a
single 360k floppy disk -- that was before bloatware became
fashionable.

It has a program (yes, it is programmable) called mail.pm, which will
format a document for plain-text5 email, strip out or apply all
formatting codes, and insert a CR/LF every 65 characters. And one
could adapt it for other line lengths as well.

>
>IOW, wordwrap is handy to have. Just not for /all/ the documents. :-)
>
>Regards,
>Rudy Wieser
>

--
Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/stevesig.htm
Blog: http://khanya.wordpress.com
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop uk

Steve,

> For that I use XyWrite, an ancient word processor that still
> processes words better than the latest ones

I've also got an ancient one : Norton Editor (35 years old). Though its
drawback is that it only does a per-paragraph formatting.

The thing is that I have no problem with the automatic word-wrapping either
note- or wordpad uses. Its just that some documents work better with it
off, and others with it on.

A few days ago I finished my first version of a wrapper program for notepad,
with which I can select, using a commandline argument, a configuration
and/or locking it (notepad than doesn't write it back to the registry). In
the document itself I can override the wordwrap mode as well as the dialogs
width and height (which than do not get written back to the registry).

I've set the wrapper as default for a few file extensions to see if it works
as well as I imagined.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser