Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]i personally think wrapping is the author's responsibiltiy and 72 is almost always a useful base value for line length. but brian, you mail lessages don't normally look the way you sent your last one... you usually DO wrap your mail! and it makes a mess when you "quote" a message, as below. but who am i to argue with brian k reid! :-) - -rei > From: Brian Reid <Brian.Reid@cs.cmu.edu> > > It is the responsibility of a mail reading program, not a mail sending program, to wrap long lines. It is better to send very long lines, because then the reader's program can wrap to fit his own screen. If the sender wraps lines to some length, and the reader's screen is not exactly that width, then the reader will see a double-wrapped message, which is much more difficult to read. > > Here is that same paragraph with the lines wrapped to 85 characters. Many of you will find this much more difficult to read: > > It is the responsibility of a mail reading program, not a mail sending program, to wrap > long lines. It is better to send very long lines, because then the reader's program can > wrap to fit his own screen. If the sender wraps lines to some length, and the reader's > screen is not exactly that width, then the reader will see a double-wrapped message, > which is much more difficult to read. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html