Post by: Jack W on January 09, 2011, 08:00:52 AM
How do I insert line breaks between items?
Post by: Paddy on January 09, 2011, 09:01:58 AM
Post by: Jack W on January 09, 2011, 09:27:42 AM
QUOTE(Paddy @ Jan 9 2011, 10:01 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Which part of your profile are you trying to do this with? You cannot do it in the My Macs section. In the Interests section, which you don't see unless you click on a member's profile, you can do it by using shift + return.
I was referring to the My Macs section. Bummer
Post by: Highmac on January 09, 2011, 12:15:46 PM
MBP(alt-space)15in(alt-space)Snow(alt-space)Leopard;(ordinary space)iMac(alt-space)G5(alt-space)10.4.11;(ordinary space)Netgear(alt-space)DG834G(alt-space)router.
Post by: Jack W on January 09, 2011, 01:23:31 PM
Where's the Alt key?
Thanks
Post by: Highmac on January 09, 2011, 01:39:40 PM
Post by: kimmer on January 09, 2011, 01:58:13 PM
Alt key: aka Option key on a Mac. Oops ... didn't read far enough to see that Neil had already 'splained.
Post by: Xairbusdriver on January 09, 2011, 03:29:46 PM
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Post by: Highmac on January 10, 2011, 01:37:56 AM
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Post by: Paddy on January 10, 2011, 07:20:40 AM
Post by: Jack W on January 10, 2011, 09:33:43 AM
QUOTE(Highmac @ Jan 9 2011, 02:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Between Control (Ctrl) and Command (Cmd - Apple) to left of spacebar
Whoops! I've always been accused of being blind in one i and not being able to see out of the other.
Yet another question: Is there anything such as a 'breaking' space? Or a line breal?
Or whatever, so one could force a new line whenever desired?
Thanks!
Post by: Xairbusdriver on January 10, 2011, 01:41:41 PM
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s there anything such as a 'breaking' space?
"Normal" spaces will 'break' when the display reaches the maximum allowed width of a line of text (assuming the display method is programmed to do that and it is not circumvented in other ways). There are so many display method around that it would be a major undertaking to find the ones that don't do this. But, in html (and, by definition, CSS), there is an attribute that tells a browser to 'simply' hide and 'overflow.' That usually just chops off everything that would normally flow back to the next line below the current one.
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Or a line breal?
I assume you mean "line break." And yes, that is normally achieved with a carriage return in most text/word processors. In html, the "<br>" tag tells the browser to 'break' a line of anything at a specific point. It is rarely used as it doesn't always do what the writer thinks since the user can increase the size of text very easily, which can just as easily cause 'normal' line breaks to occur at places other than the writers wishes.
Again, in html, a properly formatted paragraph will have a "<p>" and "</p>" tags telling the browser to normally break the line of text just after that 'closing' tag. Again, every display device uses different methods of communicating line 'breaks.' Windows and early computers used two characters; a carriage return (CR) and a line feed (LF).There are several non-printing characters in all character sets (ASCII, ISO 646, ISO 8859 (ISO Latin, especially ISO Latin 1), Windows character set, ISO 10646, UCS, and Unicode, UTF-8, UTF-7, MIME, etc., etc.), not to be confused with fonts, that do this and many other things. The trick is knowing which characters sets are used in what software. The TS forum is running on PHP scripts. The exact reaction to different typed in characters, in different text boxes seems a little inconsistent. But that's just the way it is.
The code writers don't always do things modularly and so different areas of a program may look the same but behave differently. 
Post by: Paddy on January 10, 2011, 01:46:45 PM
Post by: Xairbusdriver on January 10, 2011, 02:48:37 PM
