Re: Indent and text editors
- From: "Dave Durber" <d.durber@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 07:18:49 -0500
Karen:
You are incorrect, when you imply that WordPad is not a pure text editor,
because it is.
In fact, WordPad is a very basic bear-bones word processor, with very basic
word processing functions. This means that things such as centering, tab
spacing, bullet styles and paragraphs etc., are available to indicate how
text should be placed on a line and how text should appear on a page for a
particular document.
Whereas Notepad, on the other hand, has no word processing functions, it is
a pure text editor, plane and simple.
A good example for using Notepad instead of using a word processor such as
WordPad, is to create scripts for JAWS. In cases like that, you must make
sure that "Word Wrap" is turned off before you save the JAWS Script Source
file. If you do not do that, long lines of script code will be broken up
onto separate lines and will be treated by the JAWS compiler as separate
lines of code. As a result, the JAWS Script Binary file is most unlikely
not going to work at all.
When creating a document, you should decide what type of document you want
to create, a document that has controlled formatting or a document that is a
plane text document which only contains hard returns to control the format
of the file.
In summing up, both WordPad and Notepad are text editors, but they are used
for completely different purposes.
Sincerely:
Dave Durber
----- Original Message -----
From: "1SmartDog@xxxxxxx" <1smartdog@xxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 11:08 PM
Subject: Re: Indent and text editors
> Actually, the font settings are the same. I've just been doing more
> research. I downloaded both "Context" which is a programmer's text editor
as
> well as Notepad++. JFW functions in both as it does in Notepad. Wordpad,
it
> seems, is not a pure text editor but does insert RTF codes. JFW sees a tab
> in Wordpad as "tab" in the code. In the pure text editor it just sees
> spaces. I sure wish I could change it, though. I'd rather hear "tab"
instead
> of the number of spaces.
>
> Thanks for the reply.
> Karen
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Soronel Haetir" <soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 8:59 PM
> Subject: Re: Indent and text editors
>
>
> > My guess would be that this is due to how JAWS comes up with the
> > number. It doesn't (AIUI) actually extract the text, instead it looks
> > at the blank space and calculates how many spaces there are. I'm
> > guessing you use different font settings in the two editors.
> >
> > On 2/8/10, 1SmartDog@xxxxxxx <1smartdog@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> I'm in a quandry over indent and text editors. Specifically, I'm
looking
> >> at
> >> just Notepad and Wordpad. For programming, I want indents announced. In
> >> both
> >> these editors I've turned indents to announce. In Wordpad, what is
> >> announced
> >> is "left margin" "one tab" "two tabs", etc, which I like. In Notepad,
> >> lines
> >> which begin at the left margin are announced "one space" and tabs are
> >> announced as "7 spaces". I don't like the Notepad results. Any idea why
> >> they
> >> are different? Can I change this?
> >>
> >> Thanks for any help,
> >> Karen
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Soronel Haetir
> > soronel.haetir@xxxxxxxxx
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