On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 09:51:33AM -0700, Dennis wrote: > > Also, out of curiosity, why wrap to 72 characters as opposed to 80 or > some other number?
I'm not the OP, but this email is wrapped at column 72 for many reasons. One being that 80 columns is a reasonable width to expect and at 72 there is room for 2 or 3 "> " reply indents before text needs to be reflowed. Another reason that 80 columns is reasonable to expect is that a line which is too long is harder to read. Harder for the eye to move to the start of the next line. Its rare but there are email transport systems which do not deal with long lines very well. The "Content: flowed" format (Mail.app does this) will wrap at 72 columns ending lines that it broke with an '=' so that a compatible email client will reassemble the lines on those breaks while removing the escape =. YahooGroups stripes the flowed attribute, and strips the = escape characters but leaves the line breaks. If someone sends hard break 100 column lines from Mail.app the posted result will have alternating lines of roughly 72 and 28 columns. But mostly I do it because its easier to read. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [email protected] ======================================================================== Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en If you have a specific feature request or would like to report a suspected (or confirmed) problem with the software, please email to "[email protected]" rather than posting to the group. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
