At 17:04 -0800 11/9/06, Christopher Nebel wrote, on another topic:
>It's not a bug, precisely -- it's a very old Dialog Manager feature to do text substitution. If it sees "^0" (or 1, 2, or 3) in a piece of dialog text, it will substitute the string set by another Dialog Manager call. (ParamText, if you care. No, it's not accessible from AppleScript.) The only suggestion I can give you at the moment is "don't do that."
I was bothered that the text does not word wrap when I change the width of the message window. Looking at the source I find this:
>bbs.applescript.net).</div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>It's not a bug, precisely -- it's a very old Dialog Manager feature to do text substitution. If it sees "^0" (or 1, 2, or 3) in a piece of dialog text, it will substitute the string set by another Dialog Manager call. (ParamText, if you care. No, it's not accessible from AppleScript.) The only suggestion I can give you at the moment is "don't do that."</div><br><br><div contenteditable="false"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Optima; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none;
Does the introduction of all those non-breaking spaces make any sense? Does it have anything to do with "proper" display of pasted scripts?
The originator is X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.853). It it coming from there or is an artifact of the way the list software operates?
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