Hi all,
I've been checking the text objects of Gem but couldn't find a way to project multiple lines of text. I'd also like to be able to set boundaries for the projection, so whenever the text reaches them, it would go down one line.
Hope what I'm explaining is clear.
Cheers

Hi alexandros, this looks like the same question I've got. Have you found a solution yet?
See my question 2-01-2014. Many thanks
vvvr

Hi,
It's been quite a while since I posted this but I remember finally I could write multiple lines. What I did was use [text2d] but send messages like [string 97 98 99 13 100 101 102(
Can't really remember is the first symbol is 'string', I think that's it. This message should print the letters a, b and c in one line and d e and f in another line just below. 13 is ASCII carriage return, which should create a new line, if I remember correctly. Try it out and let me know if it worked.

Hi Alexandros, thanks for that. I'll have a look if that is workable. The last few days I have been trying to get the patch with [msgfile] to run on my old mac laptop with OSX 10.4. After a lot of trial and error I got it to run with PD 0.42.5 extended. So now back to see if I can improve my patch. I'll let you know.
vvvr

I retried what I did when I had this problem and found out that my answer to your question is correct, only a carriage return (ASCII 13) will lower the current line of text and start rendering the new one above the old one. Don't know if this is ok for you, but that's what I used..

Hi, if I use 13 like so: [string 13( in the message GEM only shows a little box (as a not printable character). Am I missing something? Do you have an example patch? Many thanks vvvr

Try this out, it should work. click on the toggle and press keys on your computer, whenever you hit return the current line of text should go one line down and whatever you type on top should go in a new line on top of the old one..

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/text_in_lines.pd