Re: Gem [text2D] including line breaks

cyrille henry via Pd-list <[email protected]> Wed, 28 Jan 2026 11:39:39 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.puredata.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
hello,

This patch use fudiformat to convert the text to ascii and various list object to concatenate all line and clean the ; and the end of the lines.

It is then rendered with the string message that allows the linefeeds.

cheers
C


Le 28/01/2026 à 11:21, Peter P. a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> this topic seems to come up frequently [1]
> and I am looking for a vanilla solution of rendering multiline text from
> a textfile in Gem's [text2d] object.
> 
> I can output multiple lines but text2d expects all text to be prefixed
> with either "text" or as list. Both seem unable to pass on linefeeds
> correctly, at least in my minimal working example (attached).
> 
> Anything I can try next?
> Thanks for all your ideas!
> best, Peter
> 
> 
> [1] https://lists.iem.at/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/thread/XUS657GKDCQE3GUDIGZYA5U46K5365UL/
> 
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gemMultilineText-mwe.pd (text/plain, 1.1 KB)
#N canvas 907 166 572 694 12;
#X declare -lib Gem;
#X obj 37 69 gemhead;
#X obj 161 236 textfile;
#X obj 37 622 text2d;
#X obj 229 13 declare -lib Gem;
#X msg 195 53 create \, 1;
#X obj 195 80 gemwin;
#X obj 161 203 until;
#X msg 193 175 read multiline.txt cr \, rewind;
#X obj 161 122 bng 20 250 50 0 empty empty empty 0 -10 0 12 #fcfcfc #000000 #000000;
#X obj 161 265 fudiformat;
#X obj 161 515 list prepend string;
#X obj 161 544 list trim;
#X obj 161 449 list prepend;
#X msg 382 289 list;
#X obj 161 149 t b b b;
#X obj 237 483 list;
#X obj 161 386 list split 1;
#X obj 242 327 list length;
#X obj 242 354 - 2;
#X obj 161 292 t l l;
#X obj 161 416 list append 10;
#X connect 0 0 2 0;
#X connect 1 0 9 0;
#X connect 1 1 6 1;
#X connect 4 0 5 0;
#X connect 6 0 1 0;
#X connect 7 0 1 0;
#X connect 8 0 14 0;
#X connect 9 0 19 0;
#X connect 10 0 11 0;
#X connect 11 0 2 0;
#X connect 12 0 15 0;
#X connect 12 0 10 0;
#X connect 13 0 12 1;
#X connect 14 0 6 0;
#X connect 14 1 7 0;
#X connect 14 2 13 0;
#X connect 15 0 12 1;
#X connect 16 0 20 0;
#X connect 17 0 18 0;
#X connect 18 0 16 1;
#X connect 19 0 16 0;
#X connect 19 1 17 0;
#X connect 20 0 12 0;