Dave,I defer to the programming professionals at the University of Oklahoma who provided the following, along with a considerable amount of very helpful information concerning the text editors appropriate for writing programming code:
"Wordpad is perhaps better viewed as a very limited word processor, rather than an enhanced text editor. It defaults to a proportional font and RTF (rich text format) for saving files. If you try to write (for example) Stata do files in Wordpad you may have considerable problems saving them with the extension do, trying to get Stata to read your RTF file, etc. Although Wordpad has many extra features compared with Notepad, these are essentially word processing features and are of no use for editing text files. Hence I do not recommend it for that purpose."
The Wordpad you describe here is a "word processor" not a "text editor" in the language of writing code. At any rate, I was referred away from both to a more appropriate application. So, the answer to the question I did ask has been answered. JFW will, of course, behave differently in a text editor (Notepad) than it will in a word processor (Wordpad).
If you're interested and would like the links to the information the univesity guys referred me to, I'm glad to send them off list.
Karen----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Durber" <d.durber@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 6:18 AM Subject: Re: Indent and text editors
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 basicword 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 isa 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 wantto create, a document that has controlled formatting or a document that is aplane 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 usedfor 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 editorsActually, the font settings are the same. I've just been doing more research. I downloaded both "Context" which is a programmer's text editoraswell as Notepad++. JFW functions in both as it does in Notepad. Wordpad,itseems, is not a pure text editor but does insert RTF codes. JFW sees a tabin 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"insteadof 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'mlooking>> 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 > -- > JFW related links: > JFW homepage: http://www.freedomscientific.com/ > Scripting mailing list: > http://lists.the-jdh.com/listinfo.cgi/scriptography-the-jdh.com > JFW List instructions: > To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to> jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject > line.> Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw > Alternative archives located at: > http://n2.nabble.com/JAWS-for-Windows-f2145279.html >> If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, > or> the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. 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