At 02:55 PM 4/28/2004, you wrote:

>a bug or two in beta 1.0.3.6:
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>**** might just be a convenience issue, a warm up exercise:
>1. position cursor at end of the title line on a page of your choosing and
>hit return
>2. this new line following the title line is formatted header1.
>highlighting it and trying to change to format normal doesn't seem to work.
>(if you put text on the line first, then highlight that, it is possible).
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>**** now, here's a bug:
>1. on some page, put the cursor on a blank line above some other text. then
>hold the space bar down. the text below the growing line of spaces will
>move down.
>2. this might not be a harmless formatting issue. for that matter the first
>"bug" may also be dangerous. i say this because some time after exercising
>these two bugs a bit to figure out what conditions set them off, pepys
>crashed on me and left the page i was experimenting on is a totally broken
>state with missing, old, odd text all interspersed. i'm guessing that these
>"formatting" issues leave behind a trail of dangling special characters and
>whatnot that can ultimately be toxic.

the bug ian created for this (#26) overlaps bug #16 which i posted. it mentions
the tragic garbling of data under that i experienced once. i think i may have
been in conjunction with my use of the tab character (which crashes pepys),
since i don't thing i did the things you mention when i experienced the
garbling. on the other hand, you would probably know if you tried to use a tab,
since the crash is dramatic and immediate. soo...


>-- mark
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