Hello,
Do users display text in PD in canvases often? If so, does the text get to the point where it requires more than one line of text? If so, is there a standard patch used to separate the text onto multiple canvases?

William

No, so no again. Not that I know of.
But you might find something here...
http://puredata.info/docs/guiplugins/GUIPlugins/
if you scroll down to "Canvas Widget"...

But you should start reading here:... http://puredata.info/docs/guiplugins/GuiPluginsAPI/
There seem to be some pop-up window tools available (like the "find" window in pd).

and thanks for making me google around, because I found something I have been looking for....here...
https://svn.code.sf.net/p/pure-data/svn/trunk/scripts/guiplugins/simple_examples/
which lets me remove the menu bar from my canvases!!