Constrain data entry to avoid issues

[MikeTO]

Many text fields allow the entry of values of up to 2,147,483,647 which is unusable and will mess up a document so perhaps it would be better to constrain these fields. For example, Flow > Keep With Next allows you to keep a paragraph with the next 2 billion lines of text while ID constrains you to 5 lines. I couldn’t find a pattern for which fields were constrained, for example, hyphenation > max consecutive is limited to 25 while other fields in the same panel section such as hyphenation > min word length were unconstrained.

I did a quick scan and these fields are unconstrained: all paragraph spacing fields, tab stop, hyphenation/capital/paragraph end/column end zone and min word length fields, drop cap distance to text, initial words > count, decoration indents, stroke width, kerning, tracking, baseline offset, leading override. There are probably more.

[fde101]

On 11/5/2023 at 12:10 PM, MikeTO said:

keep a paragraph with the next 2 billion lines of text

How big would the page need to be for that to be useful at readable point sizes?

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