[OS X TeX] wrapping in TeXShop

Herbert Schulz herbs at wideopenwest.com
Thu Jan 1 11:08:38 EST 2009


On Jan 1, 2009, at 9:34 AM, M. Tamer Özsu wrote:

> Thanks Herb. I had actually tried this, but when I opened the file  
> in TextMate, I still saw the lines wrapping, so I assumed that it  
> was not working for some reason. On more careful inspection, I  
> noticed that this process wraps lines around 100 characters (don't  
> know why) and TextMate is to show lines of 70 characters, so I kept  
> seeing the lines wrapped. I think I can live with this for now,  
> although it would have been nicer to be able to specify as a  
> preference where to wrap the lines (approximately, since it needs to  
> find word boundaries).
>
> Thanks again


Howdy,

Make the window narrower before hard wrapping.

One thing to be careful about is that comment lines may get wrapped  
with the trailing part not commented. Sure to lead to compile problems  
if you aren't careful.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)






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