General ⇒ Word Wrap Display not working

[nimbonaut]

Hi,

I'm using TeXnicCenter 2.02 on a Windows 8 machine.

I've set the width for word wrapping at 80 and and activated it in the "View" menu. However as I type, the text keeps going past the 80th column, up to the end of the screen. I could not find any help for this online.

Any idea of what the issue could be?
Thanks in advance.

[nimbonaut]

I had to reinstall version 1.0 to have word wrap working correctly.

[Johannes_B]

I do not recommend to use TXC 1.0 anymore. It is more than 10 years old.
The maintainer of Texniccenter is sometimes reading here. If you are in a hurry, maybe the TEXnicCenter Support can help.

[nimbonaut]

I understand from the support team that soft wrap, while present in version 1, has been removed in version 2.
I think it was a very useful feature and it is hard to understand why it was decided to remove it.
Can anybody suggest a different latex distribution that preserves this feature?

Thanks

[Johannes_B]

There are many good (and free) LaTeX editors available.

With your installed distribution comes TeXworks, which is really just an editor, nothing fancy.
If you want more of a fancy editor, have a look at texmaker or texstudio.

But there are many more: Comparison of TeX editors