RE: [FLEx] FW 8.3 Line Separator no longer working. use \A
Ken Zook
Shift+Return (U+2028 LINE SEPARATOR) will work in the middle of any field to force a new line.
But with the switch to xhtml dictionary view and associated css style sheet, U+2028 no longer works in Before/Between/After text. Instead use \A (or \a) in these environments. css interprets this as a LineFeed which accomplishes the same thing.
Ken
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Subject: [FLEx] FW 8.3 Line Separator no longer working
Hello,
Currently in our database we're using variants as a way to organize the various inflections of a verb. As below:
Yvlh-tvlh n kick, to
1s 'Vshlh-tvlh
2s 'Inlh-tvlh
3s Yvlh-tvlh
To make the conjugations appear below the headword we had traditionally inserted a LS (Line Separator) code
in the "Before" and "Between" (to make each successive conjugation move down a line) to make the dictionary view look how we wanted. However, after updating the LS code no longer does what we intend.
My question:
How are others making the variants (or anything, really) appear on a new line in this new version of Flex?
Thanks for any information!
Scott D. Sullivan
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scot...@gmail.com
The \a and \A technique worked for the "Before" field, however it doesn't work for the "Between" field. Do you have any suggestions for that particular field?
Thanks!
Scott
Ken Zook
Backslash (\) is an escape character that expects a hex value. \0290 will insert the code U+0290 (ʐ). \A is inserting U+000A LINE FEED. It will use any following hex characters (0-9,a-f) as part of the Unicode value. If you add a space or if it’s at the end of a string, it stops interpreting it as a value (and throws away the space). Any non-hex character also ends the sequence. So \ab will insert U+00AB («). \at will insert U+000A and ‘t’. \a b will insert U+000A and ‘b’.
If you follow these rules, it works fine in the Before, Between, and After fields.
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scot...@gmail.com
Thanks again for your patience and assistance. I was entering the \a in the "Variant Forms" section when I meant to enter it into the "Variant Type" section. The solution you provided works.
Thanks again!
Scott
On Thursday, June 15, 2017 at 6:19:58 AM UTC-7, Ken Zook wrote: