On 5-Jun-2009, at 10:51, Dennis wrote: > Also, out of curiosity, why wrap to 72 characters as opposed to 80 or > some other number? I'm not trying to convince you otherwise, I'm just > wondering. I've seen many dissenting opinions on the matter and I've > never really been clear on why you might choose one over the other.
72 characters of monospaced text is about ideal. It also allows for several levels of quoting when posting to USENET or email before the 80 character wrap hits. Long lines are harder to read and harder to track from one line to the next. It's also, and this is probably most important, the width I am used to for reading text on the screen, and seems to match up reasonably well with the width of text in books. -- I can't die, I haven't seen The Jolson Story --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
