Re: Line-fields and line breaks

[James Clark <jjc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard Light wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to use line-fields within a paragraph to get this effect:
> 
> line-fielded heading         The text of the paragraph starts here, and
>                              wraps round to this margin to give a nice
>                              block offset effect ...
> 
> The length of the line-field is the same as the start-indent:
> characteristic of the paragraph, whose first-line-start-indent: is equal
> to minus the line-field length.
> 
> This works fine unless the line-field is longer than the space allocated
> to it.  In this case the first line of text is pushed to the right:
> 
> a very long line-fielded heading    The text of the paragraph starts
>                              here, and wraps round to this margin to
>                              give a nice block offset effect ...
> 
> (This is in the RTF back-end, which uses a tab character to separate the
> line-field from the rest of the paragraph.)  The effect I would like is
> for a line break to be inserted after the long heading:
> 
> a very long line-fielded heading
>                              The text of the paragraph starts here, and
>                              wraps round to this margin to give a nice
>                              block offset effect ...
> 
> which is what my reading of the standard suggests it should do.  ("If
> the content of a line-field area cannot fit into this width, then the
> area grows to accommodate the content and, if the line-field occurs in a
> paragraph, there shall be a break after the line-field.")
> 
> Have I got it wrong?  Is Jade getting it wrong?  Is there a work-around?

The effect is supposed to be as you describe, but the Jade RTF backend
cannot provide effects that are not available in RTF, and as far as I
know there is no way in RTF to make the paragraph automatically start on
a new line if the line field does not fit.

James


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