Word Wrap

[AMIannone]

It seems that no matter what I try (no left or right margins, no left or right padding, etc...) my document word wraps. Is there any way to stop that from happening? For some docs I'd rather scroll across.

[iSilo]

There is no option for specifying how wide you want the page to be, so for content that is neither preformatted nor within tables with width specifications, iSilo does the normal thing of wrapping the content to fit the screen width.

If you could provide the URL of the source (if it is publicly available) or the actual source files for the document, we can take a more detailed look to better answer your question.

[AMIannone]

It's actually just a word document that I "Saved As" an html document. It's nothing fancy.

[dklein]

I have a similar problem. I have a couple of documents that are essentially tables: each line is a code number followed by a one-line description. Most are longer than 40 characters. To use the table, only rarely do I need to see more than the first forty characters, and word wrap makes it very difficult to read down the list of codes. How do I format the document so it "forces" horizontal scroll? I used to use QED as my text reader, which worked great, but it crashes my Treo600 and thus I switched to iSilo. I have tried both text files and a WORD-formatted html table. Enclosed are two files, with the table file saved as WROD .doc for upload, rather than html.

Thanks,
David Klein

[iSilo]

The issue has to do with the fact that iSiloX/iSilo does not currently deal correctly with widths given in inches. In the Word document that you have, when saved to HTML format, the cell width is specified as 6.15in using the style attribute (e.g., style='width:6.15in'). Incidentally, the width is also given separately as 590 pixels (e.g., width=590), but the style attribute takes precendence. To work around the limitation, you can edit the HTML file in a text editor and replace all occurrences of width:6.15in; with nothing. This way, the width=590 pixels attribute will be used. If using Windows, you can use Notepad and use the Edit/Replace command to accomplish this.

[dklein]

By this post you'll see I don't follow directions well...

I read your reply, and thought, "Oh, I should be able to remove the width formatting in WORD." So I highlighted the table, chose Table-Properties-Collumns and blanked-out the cell width. I reprocessed, re-synched, and I still didn't get a horizontal scroll bar. Then I tried what you said with the text editor, but the only occcurance of the word "width" was in the phrase, " <w:LayoutRawTableWidth/>" so that find/replace instruction doesn't help. What next? Or what's a better way, witha different program, or whatever, to get a wide table into my palm that will not wordwrap?

David

P.S. I couldn't upload the html file in Notepad, so I used WordPad. Also, I can't seem to load an html or rtf file with this email. Would it help if I change the html to text and upload that?

[iSilo]

If you remove the width specifications from Word, then I think the resulting HTML file will also not have any width specifications. When a table does not have any width specifications, then iSilo does its best to fit the table within the available screen space (e.g., word-wrap as necessary).

In this post, I've included a zip file containing two files. "orthoA.htm" is the original file saved to web-page format from within Word. "orthoB.htm" is the file with all occurrences of width:6.15in; replaced with nothing.

Okay, I think the reason why you couldn't open the file in notepad is because you are running Windows 9x (e.g., 95, 98, Me), for which notepad has a 64K file limit.

Regarding uploading files, yeah you can not upload HTML files directly since it poses a potential security risk. You need to zip the files first, or change the extension to .txt.