<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div><span>Because comments are handled as an array of atoms, and Pd converts the strings of text stored in Pd files to atoms by using whitespace as separators and filtering out newlines.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span>It's the same process you see if you type a bunch of consecutive spaces and newlines in an object box-- they are filtered out after you click on an empty part of the canvas and the object
gets instantiated.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;">I think Pd-l2ork saves your newlines in comments, but upon loading the patch it still parses the string as a series of atoms. So you'll still lose data.</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal;
background-color: transparent;">-Jonathan</div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> On Wednesday, October 15, 2014 2:37 PM, me.grimm <megrimm@gmail.com> wrote:<br> </font> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv3720074686"><div dir="ltr">Hello<div><br></div><div>I there a reason when I make a long multi-sentence comment w/ carriage returns, save the file, then reopen that all the formatting (<CR>'s) is gone and I am left with a large glob of run-on text?</div><div><br></div><div>Yes, one could just have several separate comments and space them accordingly, but why would one need
to?</div><div><br></div><div>has this topic been brought up before? maybe this is different in pd-l0rk or pd-x or something...</div><div><br></div><div>thanks!</div><div>m</div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br><a ymailto="mailto:Pd-list@lists.iem.at" href="mailto:Pd-list@lists.iem.at">Pd-list@lists.iem.at</a> mailing list<br>UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> <a href="http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list" target="_blank">http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list</a><br><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>