On 3/20/03 5:16 AM, "Peter C.S. Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thus spake Paul Berkowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, circa 3/19/2003 4:49 PM: >> know that plain text hard wraps text? It does so at the nearest word end to >> 76 characters. > > Another nice feature, but I still prefer Eudora's handling of it, where you > can not only specify in preferences the number of characters, rather than > having 76 hard wired into the program, but turn it off on a message by > message basis, which is useful for sending commands to mailing list > managers.
Although I agree that it's nice to decide the number of characters at which line breaks occur, in terms of the other feature, Eudora doesn't really "turn it off" -- Eudora supports "format=flowed" text, which is a way of designating (to supporting clients) where hard returns were originally placed. The text is generally still broken at whatever length any mail gateways between you and the recipient decided to use for line length; the server-inserted line breaks are just ignored by the client (again, only if it supports format=flowed). Most mailing list servers don't support it. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
