userRPL / hp 50g, creating grobs from list using the "text" view.

[DavidM]

(04-17-2017 04:44 PM)pier4r Wrote:  Ok, I really hoped to make use of the text view. I just tested and even creating a string, manually split over 3 lines, when transformed in a GROB becomes a long string. Dunno why.

If you set system flag 70 (-70 SF), ->GROB will respect carriage returns in the source text when creating the resulting grob.

I know that your focus is on UserRPL here, but I just thought I'd mention that this is an area which is much easier to deal with using SysRPL. There are commands available in that environment which allow direct access to built-in functions for wrapping strings at a given column and converting strings to grobs without needing to set flag -70.