Failing to understand the oddities of the "line" chunk

[Geoff Canyon]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:54 PM, J. Landman Gay
<jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:

> I think it should behave the same way character selections do. A negative
> range has been a valid construct since HyperCard and is, actually, the only
> way to set the insertion point by script. It's a necessary feature.


This seems to work, and is far clearer:

   *select* before char 8 of fld 1

"after" works as well, as do word and line references.