This is for fellow MJ enthusiasts using version 7. I would love to use this new version, but I have an issue with it that makes it unusable. I am hoping one of you knows what is going on and can tell me how to fix it.

The editor isn't wraping the text, as you can see in this screen shot:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/j4wz4jg12uw96et/Welcome to MacJournal! — New Journal 1 2019-03-11 09-07-57.png?dl=0

It seems like there should be an easy fix for this, but I can't find it. My emails to Dan have gone unanswered. Help please!

Thank you.

Steve

Can you try Text Zoom (View -->Text zoom-->75%)?

I'm having the same problem with text not wrapping around. I noticed it in the beta and was hoping that it would be fixed with the final version but apparently not.

Alan

Never seen that before. But try exiting/restarting as a first step. Then, as Dellu suggests, zooming in/out. Then maybe opening the note in a separate window.

I'm assuming it's something you've typed, and not something you've copied from elsewhere? Otherwise there might be underlying coding (HTML?) that's disrupting the window display.

Okay. This is very weird. Like Alan, I've had this problem since beta 2. I tried shutting down and restarting the app. I tried changing the zoom scale. None of that worked. BUT, I just checked on it again and things were working. I noticed there was now a marker for the right hand margin. I thought, Great. Then I resized the window, the margin marker disappeared and the problem returned. Fidgeting with window sizes, zoom scales didn't fix it. This is frustrating, but perhaps with this little bit of additional information, Dan might have some idea what is wrong.

Thanks for the suggestions!

Steve Z.

I'm continuing to see odd text wrapping (or no wrapping behavior) and I've just submitted a bug report to the developer. None of the solutions mentioned here help. I start up Mac Journal and it opens on a screen with text wrapping at edge or a right hand margin and within a second or two (without my keyboard or mouse intervention) the text will unwrap! Very strange.

I am glad you submitted a bug report too, Alan. Maybe Dan will take this seriously.

Alan Sandercock wrote:

I'm continuing to see odd text wrapping (or no wrapping behavior) and
I've just submitted a bug report to the developer. None of the
solutions mentioned here help. I start up Mac Journal and it opens on a
screen with text wrapping at edge or a right hand margin and within a
second or two (without my keyboard or mouse intervention) the text will
unwrap! Very strange.

I don't see this effect in v7 (318) date stamped March 9. (I had to download this from his website since the v7 version I previously had would not recognize that that was an update).

What font are you using?

Are there any hidden preferences set? Several of them affect document editing. You might want to try resetting all hidden preferences.

Hmmmmm...... it's a concern that Dan doesn't acknowledge bug reports

Have you defined the right margin for the document (at 6.5" or so)?

Hi, Paul,

I don't know how to reset hidden preferences. Can you tell me how? Thank you.

Steve

Paul Korm wrote:

I don't see this effect in v7 (318) date stamped March 9. (I had to
download this from his website since the v7 version I previously had
would not recognize that that was an update).

What font are you using?

Are there any hidden preferences set? Several of them affect document
editing. You might want to try resetting all hidden preferences.

Hmmmmm...... it's a concern that Dan doesn't acknowledge bug reports

Sorry, here's what Dan says

http://danschimpf.com/hiddenprefs.html


Stephen Zeoli wrote:

Hi, Paul,

I don't know how to reset hidden preferences. Can you tell me how? Thank
you.

Thanks, Paul.

I could just be missing what is right under my nose (my wife will tell you that is indeed one of my afflictions), but I don't see that button or option in Advanced Preferences for version 7.

Steve Z.

Paul Korm wrote:

Sorry, here's what Dan says

http://danschimpf.com/hiddenprefs.html


Stephen Zeoli wrote:
Hi, Paul,
>
>I don't know how to reset hidden preferences. Can you tell me how?
Thank
>you.

Sorry, I've had hidden preferences turned on in MJ since v4 at least, so I guess it is just a persistent setting over here. Didn't mean to send you down a rat hole.

Stephen Zeoli wrote:

Thanks, Paul.

I could just be missing what is right under my nose (my wife will tell
you that is indeed one of my afflictions), but I don't see that button
or option in Advanced Preferences for version 7.

Hey, no worries. I appreciate the suggestions. Thank you.

Paul Korm wrote:

Sorry, I've had hidden preferences turned on in MJ since v4 at least, so
I guess it is just a persistent setting over here. Didn't mean to send
you down a rat hole.

Stephen Zeoli wrote:
Thanks, Paul.
>
>I could just be missing what is right under my nose (my wife will tell
>you that is indeed one of my afflictions), but I don't see that button
>or option in Advanced Preferences for version 7.

Mmm, I downloaded and installed a 15 day evaluation of MacJournal 6 from the MacUpdate site and wrapping is working exactly as it should. I just wanted to check to make sure there wasn't something unique to this iMac that was causing a general problem with other versions of MacJournal. I then reinstalled the free MacJournal 7 and once again have the text not wrapping. I have the Hidden menu although that was because I used the Control Command trick mentioned above.

I'm not getting the word wrapping issue once the text is all selected and the right margin is set at something reasonable (6" or 6.5").

This sounds like a dumb question (I hope it is, actually), but how do you set the right margin? I can't find any reference for that. Typing "margin" into the help search reveals nothing.

Thanks!

Steve

Jeffery Smith wrote:

I'm not getting the word wrapping issue once the text is all selected
and the right margin is set at something reasonable (6" or 6.5").

Yes, wrapping works perfectly for me in version 6. It's version 7 where the problem has cropped up.

Alan Sandercock wrote:

Mmm, I downloaded and installed a 15 day evaluation of MacJournal 6 from
the MacUpdate site and wrapping is working exactly as it should. I just
wanted to check to make sure there wasn't something unique to this iMac
that was causing a general problem with other versions of MacJournal.
I then reinstalled the free MacJournal 7 and once again have the text
not wrapping. I have the Hidden menu although that was because I used
the Control Command trick mentioned above.

Dan Schimpf (developer) has replied thanking me for the bug report and says that the issue is related to using a text zoom setting over 100%. Apparently changes to the program were made for Mojave compatibility and he's still working on issues with the new system. I can report that the unwrapping behavior is fixed when I have zoom set at 100%.

Good info, thank you Alan. My posts were all set up with zoom == 100% which is why I didn't see this issue. If I set zoom > 100% the issue appears.

Alan Sandercock wrote:

Dan Schimpf (developer) has replied thanking me for the bug report and
says that the issue is related to using a text zoom setting over 100%.
Apparently changes to the program were made for Mojave compatibility and
he's still working on issues with the new system. I can report that the
unwrapping behavior is fixed when I have zoom set at 100%.

Unfortunately, changing the zoom doesn't fix the problem for me.

Alan Sandercock wrote:

Dan Schimpf (developer) has replied thanking me for the bug report and
says that the issue is related to using a text zoom setting over 100%.
Apparently changes to the program were made for Mojave compatibility and
he's still working on issues with the new system. I can report that the
unwrapping behavior is fixed when I have zoom set at 100%.

After restarting MacJournal 7 for the third time, it finally started working properly at 100% zoom.

And I did get a response from Dan telling me basically the same thing... makes me feel better, too.


Stephen Zeoli wrote:

Unfortunately, changing the zoom doesn't fix the problem for me.

Alan Sandercock wrote:
Dan Schimpf (developer) has replied thanking me for the bug report and
>says that the issue is related to using a text zoom setting over 100%.
>Apparently changes to the program were made for Mojave compatibility
and
>he's still working on issues with the new system. I can report that
the
>unwrapping behavior is fixed when I have zoom set at 100%.

If you engage the ruler at the top of the screen, you can set the margins visually. You select all of the text, then pull the right margin icon to the left until it is in the desired place. I use 6.5".