Workaround request - textcolor property in a field in a group

[Thomas McGrath III]

You could just set the dontWrap of field "AA" to true    or    select 
field "AA" and highlight dontWrap in the property inspector.

That will show you how many 'real' lines you have.

Tom McGrath

On Jul 27, 2005, at 11:59 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> Cubist at aol.com wrote:
>> sez davis.phil at comcast.net:
>>> Grasping at straws here, but maybe it'll awaken something in your 
>>> brain:
>>> Does the text of field "AA" contain CRs (which define lines), or 
>>> does it
>>> just look like multiple lines, 'soft' wrapping and and flowing 
>>> without
>>> having any CRs in it? If the latter, that would explain why you 
>>> can't select a chunk in line 2.
>>    A possibly useful hint: Try setting the firstIndent of the field 
>> to 75. However-many *real* lines of text you have in the field, each 
>> of those lines will magically acquire an inch-or-so of whitespace at 
>> its beginning.
>
> This is one of those things I wish I'd thought of. Very nice. It never 
> occured to me.
>
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