William > I use Safari on a Mac-Brook Pro > > I don't quite undertand the rest of the advice.
You can make the Safari window narrower by dragging the bottom right corner to the left, or you can make it wider by dragging the corner to the right. If you make a window narrower, the lines of text also will be narrower and the words at the end will be "pushed" down to the next line so that all the text can still be seen on screen. If you make the window wider, that will increase the width of the lines and words from lower lines will be "pulled back" to the preceding line, so that the text fills out the column without a large area of white space on the right margin. This is referred to as "text wrapping," which means that the text moves forward or backward as you resize the window. If you look at a web page on your machine with a narrow window and I look at the same page on my computer with a wider window, the lines will break at different points because on your computer the lines are narrower than on mine. This produces the same results as changing the window on your computer. The text fills out the available space and wraps to the next line without bad line breaks. When you send an email message to the Aesthetics list, the text on your screen "wraps" to the width of the space in the email message window. The automatic process used by the list computers that receive your message and then resend it back to the rest of us inserts a line break at the end of each line of text. When we receive the message, the lines will wrap on screen but then the second line will end at the place where the list's computer inserted a line break. Thus the end of the line will be on the second line and will look like "free verse." "I trust I make myself obscure?" "Perfectly, Thomas." --A Man for All Seasons | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Michael Brady
