BUG: 4.0c SR1: Long words truncated if wider than panel width. Not wrap to next line.

I think I might have just found the longest word in any Logos resource ...

I had to reduce the program scaling, and max out the panel width to see the whole word. I expect to have it wrap and extend onto the next line.

And YES - the end of this long word really does matter. Its a Maths error without the bit on the end.

I copied this section of the book into Microsoft Word. As I expected, Word wraps this over as many lines as required.

Resource: BYNDCOSMOS.lbxlls, Page 27.

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JimTowler

The Logos4 Search Results gets it right, and wraps the word correctly.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/131049#Comment_131049

I've also found some oddities of missing word wrapping. Unfortunately, I've not documented them. Thanks.

JimTowler

Its a Maths error without the bit on the end.

Actually 10^-100 is 0.000...1, NOT 1.000...1

Its a very tiny number just a little more than 0, rather than just above 1.

1 centimeter is not really very small when it comes to tiny!!!

I have logged a typo in the resource.

Melissa Snyder

Thanks for submitting a typo report. I'll submit a report directly, too.

JimTowler

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/131149#Comment_131149

Thanks for submitting a typo report.

Thanks.

And the word-wrap aspect?

Melissa Snyder

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/131157#Comment_131157

Thanks for submitting a typo report.

Thanks.

And the word-wrap aspect?

Yes, that is the main part of the report, which could be a bug in other resources, too.

Bob Pritchett

As the person who coded the word-wrap code (in 1994?), I can say that this the wrapping is performed as designed. We try to never break a word, because we don't have hyphenation support. In the "worst case" scenario (and this is it), we at least force the word to a newline, to maximize space, and then let it run off to the right.

In the future I hope we will have hyphenation, but the algorithm will probably not break numbers (since it could imply a semantic, not just typographic) difference. So you'll just need to make this window wider.

(Word has a fixed page width, making even "bad" wrapping better than running off the edge. Since we have a variable page with, and you can always make the window wide enough -- in theory -- for any word you'd encounter, I thought (in 1994) this the best solution.)

:-)

JimTowler

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/131431#Comment_131431

Thanks Bob,

Yes - in my first line, I acknowledged that the "word" in question was exceptional.

It was only because it makes no sense to have a line of 0's like that, unless there was something on the right-hand end, that I went looking.

Funny thing: The author, or someone/something along the way introduced an error, so in the form it appears in Logos at present, the number is incorrect by a factor of 10^100 too large!!! [:)]

I'm quite happy to accept that words don't wrap in the kinds of example above.

So, we are still running some code you wrote yourself ...

Thanks for a great application!

Todd Phillips

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/131431#Comment_131431

In the future I hope we will have hyphenation, but the algorithm will probably not break numbers (since it could imply a semantic, not just typographic) difference. So you'll just need to make this window wider.

If the number is wrapped in the physical book (which I suspect is probably the case here), then maybe those numbers should be allowed to wrap in Logos?

Mark Barnes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/131431#Comment_131431

Surely in this case the best solution would be to add a few soft-hyphens in the text?

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/131625#Comment_131625

If you enter a long "word" or number into Word, without soft hyphens, it wraps when it hits the margin of the page. I disagree with Bob that Word has fixed page width. You can always change the margins of your page, and Word will re-compute the wrapping, which is the same as what Logos does when you change the window width. I understand that Bob was working with what he knew back in 1994, but Logos can and should be 16 years smarter now.