Fwd: Re: formatting and addresses

[Bill Wood]

On Thu, 01 Jul 1999 14:23:39 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

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>>I turn off WYSIWYG before I send the msg and in most cases it wraps to fit the reader's window because hard returns are only at paragraph boundaries. But there are a couple of problems. As best I can tell from experiment the 'internet' insert a couple of hard returns and perhaps a couple of other characters every 1K characters or so (varies with the server it seems). The second problem is that I necessarily use WYSIWYG when I compose but forget to turn it off sometimes.
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>     The other problem is this.  See only the one quote marker.  By turning
>off the wrapping completely it does just that, no wrapping, and most people
>end up with a really long line with just the single quote they must now
>format manually.
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>     Turn on reflow, set it to something between 72 and 78.  That is the
>standard since, oh, call it `84 or so.

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No that's not what happens. The default on my PMMail read window is WYSIWYG. When I get a paragraph without hard returns it wraps to fit my window. 100 percent of the time, everytime. If I change the size of the read window the text reflows properly.  In discussions with others, the behavior is the same for most (incl non-PMMail) readers, except for a friend who uses some weird AOL/Windows reader that wraps on its own every 128 characters or so.

There are some readers that don't reflow properly but most do, including PMMail. I've spent a fair amount of time looking into this.  

BTW, checkout the paragraphs of mine in this msg and see if they reflow at your read-window boundary. Try changing the window size.

w3

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w3

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