SY turnpoints (Question for Brit users)

Question for people using BGA turnpoint files generated by TPSelect in
the SY turnpoint format.

Some of the BGA turnpoints have several lines of description. When I look
at these TPs with a text editor I see something along the lines of
"line one, line two, line three, last line", i.e. the description is
always enclosed in double quotes and, if the BGA downloadable Excel
format has more than one line of text, these are separated by commas.

When these are displayed using LK8000 or XCSoar, its all treated as a
single chunk of text, so its displayed like this in the four line text
field:

+============================+
!line one, line two, line !
!three, last line !
! !
! !
+============================+

but it would be easier to read if it was like this:

+============================+
!line one !
!line two !
!line three !
!last line !
+============================+

Scroll bars are added if the description is too big to fit in 4 lines. No
attempt is made to format the text by treating its internal commas as
line breaks.

What I what to know
===================
Does SeeYou Mobile do the same or does it attempt to use the commas to
indicate line breaks? I have the .CUP file specification but it is silent
on this point.

Why I want to know
==================
I've just rewritten the program I use to create loadable files from the
UK landouts database that David Taylor and I are putting together. Last
season the program only produced outputs usable by LK8000 and XCSoar,
i.e., a CAI/Winpilot turnpoints file and a Waypoint Notes file containing
a description of each landout field. The new version can also produce
output as a .CUP format file.

However, as the longer descriptions look like a dogs dinner with all the
lines crammed together as one lump with commas sprinkled in it, I'd like
to format it properly (like I can do for LK8000/XCSoar) if at all
possible.

So, for starters I'd like to know what SYM does long BGA TP descriptions.

Does it too leave the text in a goobly lump with commas sprinkled into it
or does it treat them as line breaks?


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