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Is there any way to change the set of characters that Textpad breaks/wraps words on? Some of them are really annoying, for example it'll break
on quotes, leaving an orphaned quote mark at the end of the line and the word being quoted on the next line. I haven't been able to find anything obvious in the config to control this.

Cannot reproduce in TextPad 8.4.0 with all kinds of quotation marks. In this case there would be enough space to leave the first quotation mark on the same line and break the line with the fourth word into the next line - but TextPad just doesn't:
Please quote the exact text you're using and make sure you activate View > Visible Spaces, so you make sure there are no spaces between a quotation character and a word character. Then we may be able to at least reproduce your issue. So far TextPad breaks/wraps correctly only on word boundaries.

No, this can't be configured anywhere.

AmigoJack wrote: Mon Nov 04, 2024 7:55 am Cannot reproduce in TextPad 8.4.0 ...

Is there a TextPad 8.4.0? I thought the latest version of TextPad 8, released a few days ago, was 8.2.0.

No, that's TextPad 8.20.0 (minor version 20, while minor version 4 was released 4,5 years ago). You cannot read version numbers like fractions: .4 is lower than .20 - those are still integers. Every number in a version is a number on its own, never a fraction - trailing zeroes have a value.

Ah, good explanation; thanks.

Here you go, word wrap set to 78 characters, text before reformatting:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed eiusmod tempor
"incididunt" ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis
"nostrud" exercitation

Same text after reformatting with Shift + Ctrl + J:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed eiusmod tempor "
incididunt" ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis "
nostrud" exercitation

This is for Textpad 9.5.1.

No, still can't reproduce: I copied your text, inserted it, selected all the lines, did Ctrl+Shift+J (Edit > Reformat) and it didn't leave any quotation mark alone. Maybe it's really a bug being introduced with TextPad 9...?

I'm unable to reproduce this with TextPad 9.6.0. Does your document class specify the double quote character as something special?

TextPad 8 & 9 implement the line breaking algorithm specified in the Unicode Standard Annex #14 and there is no way to customize its behavior.

I can reproduce this in V9.6.0
Tried using different quote symbols, brackets etc.
Also happens without setting a word break column number. Simply turning word wrap on and making the window smaller.

This occurs when syntax highlighting is enabled in the Text document class with text.syn as the definition file. It will be fixed in the next release.

Just checked and that's the case here, I hadn't touched that setting ("it was like that when I got here"). Is it safe to turn off syntax highlighting in this case? Looking at text.syn it doesn't seem to do much.

Yes, you can turn off syntax highlighting for the Text document class. Its only purpose is to highlight URLs.

This is fixed in 9.6.1 and 8.20.1 which can be downloaded now.