Turning off rendering VT as a return?

[Richard Gaskin]

Earlier I wrote:

 > Before the big field rewrite a couple versions back, any Vertical
 > Tab ("VT", ASCII 11) characters in a field just rendered as a
 > non-printable character.
 >
 > But after the big field rewrite, VTs are now used as a way to provide
 > return-like appearance within a field table, so now VTs have more or
 > less the same visual appearance as CR.
 >
 > IIRC this was explained in the Release Notes for the version this
 > change was introduced in, but despite my best effort to alert RunRev
 > most of the details describing the new field behaviors are not in
 > the current documentation set.
 >
 > So in short:  Anyone here know how to turn off the rendering of VTs
 > as returns so I can see only true ASCII 10s as the line breaks, like
 > I've enjoyed for the last 25 years?

After prowling around my hard drive I found that the v5.5.4 docs are the 
most recent I can find which have Release Notes describing the new field 
features.

Among the other critically important information there currently absent 
from the docs is this bit that answers my question:

   Explicit line-breaks in fields (5.5 DP2 – experimental)

   The engine will now interpret a numToChar(11) character in a
   field paragraph as an explicit line- break when the (effective)
   dontWrap of the paragraph is false. This allows multiple ‘lines’
   to be displayed within a single paragraph.

   The formattedText property has been updated to map any explicit
   line breaks to newlines.

   Note that since the vGrid property turns dontWrap on for the
   paragraph, using the line-break char in table paragraphs will have
   no effect.


The Message Box doesn't have its dontwrap set, so there's no way to see 
the natural wrappings of your text there.  As a workaround during 
development I've found you can simply add a field with dontWrap set to 
true and put any data you need to review there instead.

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