Morgan Olsson wrote: > Peter Reaper 18:22 2005-05-31: >> PS. Why wasn't your text wrapped while I was composing my reply? > > Because i have no way of telling everybodys mail readers line lengths > and character widths and make everyone special mails cut special > places.
That's not true. The *sender* of the mail specifies the line length. If you wrap your lines at 72 characters every receiving client will display them in lines with 72 characters. This doesn't happen always in the mails of you and Peter for different reasons. The TB from Peter uses "format-flowed" by default (ask aunt Google for more info) that for many reasons is called "format-flawed" quite often. Google groups tells how to disable it if wanted. Your mails seem to have very long lines because your client either doesn't wrap at all or you have told it not to do so. > Plus, deep nested replays made with diffferently broken lines which > make a mess. If line breaking is used some mail programmay break a > line, and when that s replied to extra identation makes that line > longer and it happens it is broken again making a single word line > between longer lines - ugly. Exactly *because* so many mail clients (like OE, KNode etc. that wrap even quoted lines at 80 characters length) have problems with quoting longer lines it's common and polite practice to cut lines to a decent length. Using 72 characters as a maximum line length (the default in Thunderbird) allows proper quoting of replies even in OE up to quoting level 4. Best regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer - OpenOffice.org Application Framework Project Lead Please reply to the list only, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is a spam sink. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
