text in fields (CR/LF, CR, LF) which is correct?

[J. Landman Gay]

Kee Nethery <kee at kagi.com> wrote:

> I am pulling text from a database and in the text, I have the word 
> "Default", followed by an ASCII 13 which is a CR or return, followed 
> by another word "Your". In Hypercard and in Tex-Edit under MacOS X 
> this displays as
> 
> Default
> Your
> 
> In Revolution on MacOSX it displays as
> 
> DefaultYour
> 
[snip]
> 1. What the ... is going on here?
> 
> 2. Why is Revolution ignoring the lone CR initially and then not 
> ignoring it later?
> 
> 3. Why is Revolution changing the CR LF characters to CR CR?
> 
> 4. What does Revolution want to see between the "t" and the "Y" so 
> that the "Y" appears to be on the line below the "t"?
> 
> 5. Is there some setting I should use that will cause Revolution to 
> pay attention to returns in text fields without having to paste into 
> a text editor and then copy them back?
> 
> 6. Is there some hack, some magic moves I can perform in script to 
> get Revolution to display the lone returns?

Because of the cross-platform capabilities, Rev displays ascii 13 and 
linefeeds variously on different platforms. To get the proper results no 
matter which platform the stack is on, try:

   replace numtochar(13) with cr in fld <myFld>

By using the built-in "cr" constant, Rev will substitute the right 
number of returns and/or linefeeds for whatever OS is running. In other 
words, let the engine do the work.


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