On Wed, Jul 19, 2023 at 5:05 AM Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 03:28:34PM -0500, R Losey wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 17, 2023 at 3:37 AM Paul Feakins <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On 15/07/2023 01:56, R Losey wrote: > > > > Is there really a convention for replies? > > > > > > Indeed there is: > > > https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/MailingListEtiquette#Replies > > > > > > > > Thanks for the link; it isn't specific to GnuCash, but that's okay. > > > > However, it does seem outdated - limiting a line to 72 characters when > most > > browsers and email clients are capable of doing line wrap? > > > Yes, but eyes aren't! Something around 80 characters (i.e. 72 plus a > bit) is the best line length for our eyes to read. > > > > And plain text only? > > > What else are you going to do? Anything more is likely to be > differently interpreted by different users' software so the result you > intend is likely to be lost on many users. There are standard ways of > indicating emphasis and such using just plain text. > > This doesn't appear to be plain text... perhaps I'm associating plain text with fixed-width fonts. But if this works, that's fine.
Regarding line length, I thought you could set your browser or email client to wrap at whatever length one wishes. _________________________________ Richard Losey [email protected] Micah 6:8 _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
