Flare wrapping lines in unusual places

[joy]

I have seen a few similar topics to this (under "short lines" posts) but nothing exactly like what we are seeing.

One of our company partners uses Flare/Lingo to translate our documentation for each release. They noticed that some lines in quite a few topics were wrapping in strange places. This, in turn, was interfering with their change tracking.

Changing "Short Line" settings in the style sheet properties did not fix the problem. The Flare topic looks fine (output looks fine too), but if if you open the topic in Flare's text editor, it looks like what I've included below (red arrows show where the lines are ending). Any ideas?

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Regards,
Joy

[SteveS]

Their change tracking? How do they track changes?

I notice each of the lines after an unexpected break have their own line number, as if something is adding a carriage return/ line feed.

I would try opening the topic in another text editor (notepad or similar, not Word) to see if the line is breaking in the same place. If so, something is adding a return command...

HTH

[joy]

Thanks for your response. Yes, the lines appear the same in both UltraEdit and Notepad.

I believe the Lingo "lingo" is differences, although I don't use the product. Our translators compare projects from version to version of our software. These short lines register as a "change".

[GregStenhouse]

Short Lines I think is just for the output (e.g. PDF) only.
I don't think it is the internal text editor's word wrapping (although you might want to disable the "Word Wrapping" button above the internal text editor and see if it makes a difference.
I don't think it is hard returns, as viewing a topic in the XML editor and then again in the internal text editor will remove all of those.
I suspect those are 'soft' returns (i.e. line breaks), as they are maintained when opening via the xml editor then back to text again. Is there a chance the topics were opened in another text editor (or compare tool) that entered those breaks (perhaps via it's own word wrap feature)?

[joy]

Thanks Greg, for your suggestions. I did try the word wrap button and it only affects the "normal" lines.

Good thought: I'm now wondering whether the affected topics were ones that were reviewed/changed using Flare's X-Edit tool. If so, I guess that could be the culprit if the topics are not properly reintegrating?

[LTinker68]

You might also see that behavior if you copy and paste from an outside source. Extra spaces are removed from the output, but they're kind of remembered in the page code. If you did copy-and-paste from Word, for instance, then you might want to take an intermediate step and paste into Notepad to get rid of those extra code line breaks, then copy-and-paste from Notepad into Flare.