Willy must still be stuck in the 1970s? Even in the 1980s we had word wrap in message panes. No one should have to do any special formatting for a regular message here. I use email and Thunderbird to read and post. Not sure it if is Thunderbird or Yahoo but people will sometimes complain if the start of my post doesn't fall below the quoted. But others do that too. Most of the time I try to remember to add an extra return. One thing those retro posters who preformat are forgetting: they're posts don't format well on a smartphone which can have a *narrower* pane. The posts where people don't bother to "preformat" will format just fine on a smartphone email client.
On 07/26/2011 09:48 AM, Xenophaneros Anartaxius wrote: > > The messages on this forum go through quite a > number of different software applications, and > Yahoo's own software on the forum is inconsistent > in the way it handles spacing etc. Its rich-text > editor has some surprising screw-ups. The screen > size on which a message will display is also > an unknown, anything from a cell phone displaying > plain text to large monitors displaying HTML. > > You can reduce the width of a web browser window > to something more like a normal page. As for > other messy problems, I, for example, have given > up trying to clean them up. I do not see the > possibility of a uniform solution for everyone, > unless all our software a equipment is the same. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "richardwillytexwilliams"<willytex@...> > wrote: >> >> >> turquoiseb: >>> Having done "What I'm for" recently, I figure it's >>> only fair to spend some time rapping about what >>> I'm uh...less for... >>> >> Well, I am against posting un-formatted, word wrap, >> messages that exceed one line. >> >> They are much too much work to read when displayed >> edge-to-edge on a 40 inch monitor, and the reply >> format is totally disjointed. >> >> So, I refuse to even read any more of these messy >> postings from MZ, TB, Curtis, and any others. From >> what I can see, Judy is the only informant that >> remembers how to format a discussion post. >> >> Go figure. >> >> Learn to format for easy reading, using the Enter >> key, avoid the word wrap, and maybe I'll get back >> to you, Turq. >> >> <SNIP> >> > >
