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Re: Questions about Word Wrap etc.

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  • Subject: [mg109776] Re: Questions about Word Wrap etc.
  • From: chris <aarthur at tx.rr.com>
  • Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 07:10:40 -0400 (EDT)

S. B. Gray a =E9crit :
> 1. Why does it in effect need a blank like at the end of the text cell
> to wrap properly?
>
> 2. Why does it wrap when the rightmost text is many inches from the
> right edge?
>
> I basically never use it and wonder if I'm doing something wrong. (It
> wouldn't be the first time!) Also is there a way to default it to off?
>  
yes.  use 'styles'

> 3. I changed the default (* comment *) color to red because the original
> one is almost invisible on my screen. Now when I want to change the
> color of part of a comment, the whole thing changes to blue. ???
>
> In general I find that the more Mathematica tries to help me with text
> formatting, the more I hate its efforts. (I find the same problem, but
> to a lesser extent, with MS Word.) Unsolicited advice to text
> application programmers: stop trying to help me except in obvious and
> really necessary ways.
>
> Steve Gray
>
>
>  



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