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Jack W · « **on:** January 09, 2011, 08:00:52 AM »

in My Controls > Edit Profile Information . . .

How do I insert line breaks between items?

Paddy · « **Reply #1 on:** January 09, 2011, 09:01:58 AM »

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.

Jack W · « **Reply #2 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

Highmac · « **Reply #3 on:** January 09, 2011, 12:15:46 PM »

If you don't mind a bit of fiddling about, there is a workaround, using Alt-space (hold Alt key down as you tap the spacebar) instead of just spacebar. Replace the spaces in each section with Alt-space and it will "fix" the words either side so the Mac treats it as a single word. I've done it my own My Macs section, just to check it works, so that it separates the MBP and the G5. Leave ordinary spaces after each machine or peripheral and it will push the next "long word" round like a return. EG:

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.

Jack W · « **Reply #4 on:** January 09, 2011, 01:23:31 PM »

Highmac -

Where's the Alt key?

Thanks

Highmac · « **Reply #5 on:** January 09, 2011, 01:39:40 PM »

Between Control (Ctrl) and Command (Cmd - Apple) to left of spacebar

kimmer · « **Reply #6 on:** January 09, 2011, 01:58:13 PM »

Thanks for the tip, Neil.

Alt key: aka Option key on a Mac. Oops ... didn't read far enough to see that Neil had already 'splained.

Xairbusdriver · « **Reply #7 on:** January 09, 2011, 03:29:46 PM »

That key combo creates a non-breaking space, often used in web pages to keep a pair (or more words from ending up on different,especially, short, lines).

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Highmac · « **Reply #8 on:** January 10, 2011, 01:37:56 AM »

We used to use it in QuarkXP on our papers so we could put a space between a figure and "million" but didn't end up with, for example

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Officials said the new bypass will cost £22
million and....

Handy to find it works outside QXP

Paddy · « **Reply #9 on:** January 10, 2011, 07:20:40 AM »

My miss-steak...didn't think of trying that - didn't realize that non-breaking spaces worked in this forum software.

Jack W · « **Reply #10 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!

Xairbusdriver · « **Reply #11 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.

Paddy · « **Reply #12 on:** January 10, 2011, 01:46:45 PM »

Jack, that's what I was trying to do - as far as I can tell, it doesn't work except by fudging it with the non-breaking space. The usual key combo to force a non-breaking space in just about every app I've ever used is the shift+space key. It works fine in the Interests section, doesn't seem to do anything in the My Macs section.

Xairbusdriver · « **Reply #13 on:** January 10, 2011, 02:48:37 PM »

Paddy, just convert the text into an image or Flash!

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