Pasting Hard Breaks Out of Textpad

joezeppy · Post by **joezeppy** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 6:11 pm

Hi,

Just wondering on something that seems related to this post but not exactly...

http://forums.textpad.com/viewtopic.php?t=10907

I often craft regular email and text messages using textpad and I'd like for it to save those messages with hard breaks at say 65 or 70 characters. Then I'd like to be able to cut and paste that entire message into an email or online form with the breaks intact. (I actually created a special document class for this that I'm calling .news which breaks at 65 and is supposed to be saving as hard breaks and I am saving before cutting and pasting).

But what happens is when I try to paste into an email or online form, it pastes without the hard breaks! Do you have any ideas on how I can overcome this behavior? I feel like there is a way but I'm just not understanding how. (P.S. I'm not a programmer; know just enough to get myself in trouble - Smile).

Any ideas appreciated.

P.S. I love textpad and use it more than any other program on my computer with the possible exception of my browsers.

Post by **helios** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 7:43 pm

Please check if the hard breaks are actually there by turning on "Visible spaces" from the View menu. If they aren't there, then you haven't configured the particular Document Class correctly, as in the instructions you saw in the other post.

What happens if you paste it into Notepad?

joezeppy · Post by **joezeppy** » Mon Jan 24, 2011 11:43 pm

helios wrote:Please check if the hard breaks are actually there by turning on "Visible spaces" from the View menu. If they aren't there, then you haven't configured the particular Document Class correctly, as in the instructions you saw in the other post.

What happens if you paste it into Notepad?

Hi,

I tried pasting the text into notepad and it pasted it without the hard line breaks.

Below is the screen shot of what I am seeing with View Visible Spaces selected.

http://www.screencast.com/users/joezepp ... 600ded508b

Also, here is a screenshot of my setting for this particular class...

http://www.screencast.com/users/joezepp ... 9c12112f3a

Any help is appreciated.

Joe

P.S. I tried using the idea of changing the encoding (PC | UNIX ) and it worked once but I can't seem to make it consistent.

Post by **helios** » Tue Jan 25, 2011 9:58 am

Right click in the file and choose Properties/Preferences and check that the settings are correct for this specific document.

Is the file extension *.news?