Sabahattin, I want to know that people receiveing a message written on my Braillenote, receive a regular formatted e-mail at their end. I want this to be the case whether they receive the message on a Braillenote or a PC.
I need you to confirm a couple of things. Please tell me if I am correct. A Braillenote user receiveing an e-mail message written on a Braillenote, will then be able to emboss or print the message with proper line wrapping. Correct? A Windows PC user receiveing an e-mail message written on a Braillenote, will then be able to emboss or print the message with proper line wrapping. Correct? A "non-wrapping e-mail client user" receiveing an e-mail message written on a Braillenote, will not then be able to emboss or print the message with proper line wrapping. Correct? What can I do, using my Braillenote, to send a standard e-mail? I am referring to the standard you mentioned in your previous post. Sincerely, Jerry Weinger > ----- Original Message ----- >From: "Sabahattin Gucukoglu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Braillenote List <[email protected] >Date: Sun, 08 Aug 2004 15:37:32 +0100 >Subject: Re: [Braillenote] Line Wrap Issue (Subject Change) >Hi, >On 6 Aug 2004 at 16:57, Weinger, Jerrold (DSCP) spoke, thus: >[...] >> I work on the Windows platform at home and at work. What is the impact >> of the line wrap issue on me? >For you, no problem will appear, assuming none has so far and your mail >transport (a machine not under your control that is responsible for >delivering mail to you) has not corrupted your mail, and that the same is >true for mail you send, so long as all transports in the process are not >affected. If you use Windows, most programs will automatically wrap text, >since the default mode of text file in Windows is line-per-paragraph. >MSWord can save as text with line breaks, but this is rarely used or >necessary in Windows ; in fact, the paragraph-per-line mode can be >advantageous in certain cases since text can now be reformatted at will to >necessary margins by whomever chooses to read it. Electronic mail is >different, however; not everyone does have wrapping capabilities and is on >Windows where this is assumed, and so the standards have accommodated for >this. Lines only appear where you put them, so it is necessary to put >line breaks at or about the 75th character. As such, your mail will not >look pleasant for someone with a non-wrapping viewer, since only one line >break exists, or two, at the end of one paragraph. >Consider, if you will, the line wrap issue to be two different problems: >1. Your lines are not wrapped, so people viewing them with a non-wrapping >mailer will experience severe difficulties. >2. Your lines are not wrapped so they are very long; some transports, >including mine, will choak and refuse to deliver mail with lines that >long. Sometimes this results merely in line splitting, oftentimes it >results in actual mail corruption where the ends of lines are simply >discarded. The standard is correct and BrailleNote is wrong, and if a >transport adheres to the standard then the BrailleNote must also. >> Suppose that I use my Braillenote to compose and mail an e-mail to the >> Braillenote list. Will the recipients having Braillnotes then see a >> jumbled, garbled message from me on the Braille display, or on embossed >> Braille? Will the recipients using PCs see a jumbled, garbled message from >> me, on the Braille display, or on embossed Braille, or on printed output? >Once again, this depends on circumstances. The list transport may not >have a problem, though I have noticed mail being slightly reformatted on >this list (my PGP signatures all break, indicating that something happened >to the message body, but my messages are still legible so I don't think >this is a related issue - besides, I've tested the BrailleNote without >this list's intervention). If, however, a transport of an ISP, say an >earlier version of Sendmail or Exim, delivers one of your messages in its >current condition then it may or may not corrupt the message before it >reaches the recipient's mailbox. I am a case of this. At that point, >viewing, printing or embossing on any platform will result in jumbled >output, from simple line and spacing splits to actual message omissions. >If the message gets through unhampered, then viewing the message may be >difficult if the client cannot wrap. If however the client or its user >saves your messages and then opens them into an intelligent editor, or >processes them with a text reformatter, they can get back a pretty >reasonable estimation of what you intended them to see. For instance, if >your right margin is set at 80 characters, they can do the same with their >reformatter and get roughly equivalent results. They may even be able to >estimate whether or not line breaks existing in the text should or >shouldn't be represented as such - whether they really intended to end the >line or were simply whitespace. Displaying, printing or embossing are all >possible, but the client needs to wrap in some way. Ann is among the few >people who uses a non-wrapping client, but the client works under the >assumption that your mail is already wrapped. Windows clients, however, >including all Microsoft clients and derivatives (inclusive of KeyMail), >all simply reformat the text and add line breaks for you for readability, >so you wouldn't notice anything differently if the message had in fact new >line pairs at your approximate right margin. >Any further questions? :-) >Cheers, >Sabahattin >-- >Thought for the day: > A penny saved is ridiculous. >Sabahattin Gucukoglu >Phone: +44 20 7,502-1615 >Mobile: +44 7986 053399 >http://www.sabahattin-gucukoglu.com/ >Email/MSN: <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >___ >To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit >http://list.pulsedata.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
