Re: st: Word-wrapping in Do editor (writing smcl help file)

[Jeph Herrin <junk@spandrel.net>]

My guess is that you are adding carriage returns when you
type? If you want the lines to fill the window, don't add
any line breaks except between paragraphs.

hth,
J

Philip Jones wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong. I am writing a smcl help file in the Stata Do editor (Macintosh version 11), and I cannot seem to figure out how to wrap words. When I re-size a help window for one of the Stata-written help files, the words re-wrap gracefully, but my lines get truncated and continued to the next line:
>
> Example:
>
> ...for the following trial
> > types: randomized...
>
> I would like the sentence "...for the following trial types: randomized..." to be on one line obviously. I don't want to guess what size the user has sized the help window and then put hard carriage returns into my plain text file.
>
> Any help would be appreciated. I get the sense I am missing something.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil
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