ip problem in xywin

[Allan Needell NASSH100@xxxxxxxx]

Jimmy Diecker writes:

"I have what appears to be a problem with an IP option using the menu in XYWin
4.11. At the bottom of the menu are several options, one of which is to have
the IP change you are making apply only to the current paragraph, that is, only
to the next hard return.

ºsome deletedº The first IP delta is inserted as directed, which in this case
is 0,.9,0. But nothing is inserted following the paragraph returning the IP to
the default setting."

I tried to duplicate your problem, and I must say that trying to use the menu
for this caused no end of problems. You can do what you want, but it does NOT
involve the insertion of extra deltas at paragraph end. What is involved here
is the XYWIN scoping default. See 18-19 to 18-20 in the manual. It is best to
use the command line for this. There may well be a bug in the way the program
tries to implement scoping from the menu.

To invoke a formatting command from anywhere inside a paragraph and have it
apply to the entire paragraph, and only to that paragraph, go to the command
line and enter:

df es=4

execute. Place the cursor inside the paragraph you want reformatted, then enter
the format command. That should do it. You can continue to add text.
When you begin a new paragraph, it will revert to the format previously in
effect. To go back to the default es setting, or any other, you need to execute
another df es=n command.

The confusing thing is that the menu seems to indicate that scoping is to be
applied to each separate formatting change when it is really intended (I think)
to be an overall setting of how you want formatting commands throughout a
document (or document section) to be appied.

Hope this helps.

Allan Needell, Dept. of Space History, Nat'l Air & Space Museum
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