How about an external WordWrapper/Justifier component for SynEdit?

[taazz]

  I also use TIpHtmlPanel in various places to display help, instructions and tips for the user.

I use this little cosmetic static text for this:

http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,21448.0.html

Mind you, back when I was a professional developer we had our own THTMLLabel that accepted anchors, underline/bold/italics (and which accepted left, right and full justification).  I miss that, and it looks like TMiniStaticText closes that gap nicely...

can't understand a thing but this seems promising http://www.tegi-stuff.de/doku.php?id=tqzhtml end up there from here http://www.quickzip.org/tqzmh2.html. Haven't looked closely yet to see what it supports though.

[Mike.Cornflake]

@Taazz, @Typo:  Thanks for your suggestions, but as I say I'm now using TipHTMLPanel and am happy enough with that.  Got a frame for it (that incorporates code from one of the iphtmlpanel examples), takes a simple .html string and displays that.  Apologies for the impression I was still searching...

can't understand a thing but this seems promising http://www.tegi-stuff.de/doku.php?id=tqzhtml end up there from here http://www.quickzip.org/tqzmh2.html. Haven't looked closely yet to see what it supports though.

I had a quick look (there's an american flag in top right that shows english version of page).  Tightly integrated to the VCL, and the editor uses TRichEdit (not that I need the editor).  Shouldn't be too hard to port, but definitely looks like a project worth undertaking by someone at some stage (not that I'm volunteering )...

[typo]

Thanks for this.  I veered away from that for no other reason than it's in a dll.  For aesthetic reasons I prefer code only solutions for most items (client side dlls for connecting to a server I don't have code for is about the only exception).

I have used a DLL (or SO for Linux) because hyphenation needs it. It is from NHunspell project, GPL/LGPL/MPL licensed and, mainly, works fine for any language. See here: http://www.ushuaia.pl/hyphen/?ln=en

Just get the hyphenation dictionary for your language in OpenOffice.org, (You can edit the dictionary file too if it does not fit your needs.)

[Mike.Cornflake]

@Typo   Going back to the original topic subject.   I still don't have an answer, but I've just noticed there's a relevant bounty.  Looks like you're not the only one chasing wordwrap in that syn edit...

http://wiki.freepascal.org/Bounties#SynEdit_word-wrap