Line Attributes of Char Chunks

[Peter Haworth]

I'd say if it used to work in 6.7 and it doesn't work in 7.0 and the change
is not mentioned in the Release Notes, you should file a bug report. RunRev
will decide if it's a documentation bug or a software bug.  Since the whole
area of text processing changed so much in 7.0, I could certainly see that
something like this might get overlooked.

Pete
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On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 12:32 PM, Curry Kenworthy <curry at pair.com> wrote:

>
> Howdy Folks,
>
> Field containing "blah blah".
>
> Message box: "put effective textalign of char 1 of field 1"
>
> LC 6.7: "left"
>
> LC 7.01: "No such proper-tay, homie"
>
> (object does not have this property)
>
> So, now it's necessary to refer to the corresponding line chunk, using
> lineIndex for example, if you want any paragraph-level attributes.
>
> Previously LC would automatically provide the corresponding properties.
> This is true for several properties and not just textAlign.
>
> Was this an LC 7 oversight or intended change? Should I file a report or
> leave it alone?
>
> IMO, yes it's true that chars don't have paragraph properties. However,
> each char belongs to only one paragraph, which has those properties, which
> affects that char, so the old way was convenient and equally logical.
>
> With the addition of tabAlign in LC 7, now alignment doesn't belong only
> to paragraphs anymore. That makes the old way look pretty relevant in the
> new environment....
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Curry Kenworthy
>
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