Carriage return

[tottydoc]

Anybody have a way of entering a new line indicator after each template item so that if you want the items to be neat with one item per line you don't have to press the return key after each template item?  Darwin I sure there is a secret character that does this that has been brewed up in an IT lab in silicon valley that the Guru's 

[drreflex]

There are two new buttons on the template frame during charting.  One will insert a carraige return.  The other will insert carriage return and line feed.

 

If you are willing to edit your chart notes you can program template items with a carraige return and line feed by ending the item with a blank line followed by a second blank line with a character you will later remove.  I am using the back tic (`).   You will need to post entry scan your text and remove any back_tic-period-space-space entries you find at the beginning of a line.  Remember to enter multiple line template items you will need to write the templates outside of PF and import them.

 

All of this has to do with how PF processess template items.  I am trying to get them to change this.

 

PF strips blank lines from the end of any template item and empty template items from any template.

 

If the software is going to remove formatting, then appropriate software design should give us a way to force the formating. 

 

This could be another hidden feature in PF just like the vertical bar that allows multiple template line entry.  I found the latter by chance while trying to determine which keyboard and then which ASCII characters are valid in PF.  I am not going to mine PF to see if there is a method to force formatting. 

 

If PF were transparent, they would provide use with a user manual and would document these features available to use in each portion of the program.  Hiding features and removing formatting we have programmed into our templates without providing a work around does not bread trust with the users.

 

Darwin

 

PS (here is the test template I used to check out this issue (Remember to enter it you need to do it from within a chart note.:

 

|Test line.  No extra lines and no period

|Test line with one blank line no period

 

|Test line with two blank lines and period.

 

 

|END OF TEST ONE.  Will follow with a blank template item.

|

|Test line with one blank line and back tic.

 

`

|END OF TEST TWO.

[drreflex]

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Darwin

[tottydoc]

You can use MacroExpress to create a macro ( that is activated by a single keystroke (ie F1 thru F12) that inserts an <ENTER> followed by a period into the template writing window at the end of your desired text. This will generate a new line automatically after the template item with an unavoidable period and a space on the new line.  The period is relatively unobtrusive as it is followed by a space.

It can be interpreted to the casual observer as a bullet mark marking a new item. 

On Tuesday, March 27, 2012 1:05:10 PM UTC-4, tottydoc wrote: